White Checker-bloom (Sidalcea candida)
White Checker-bloom (Sidalcea candida), Mallow Family (Malvaceae). Native and common along streams, in meadows, and in moist places from foothills to subalpine on the eastern and western slopes. Blooms from June through September. Photo by Lenore...
Crinkled Snow Lichen (Flavocetraria nivalis)
Crinkled Snow Lichen (Flavocetraria nivalis) Photo taken by Mo Ewing on Wrangle Island in the Arctic Ocean. This species also grows in the alpine in Rocky Mountain National...
Fishhook Cactus (Sclerocactus parviflorus)
Fishhook Cactus (Sclerocactus parviflorus), Cactus Family (Cactaceae), native, S3 vulnerable in Colorado. Found in open, dry places, on clay, shale, or adobe hillsides, and often with pinyon-juniper sin the simi-desert shrublands of the western slope. Blooms from...