Quaking Aspen (Populus tremuloides)

Quaking Aspen (Populus tremuloides)

Quaking Aspen (Populus tremuloides), native tree, common along streams and in the mountains where it forms large clonal stands, from foothills to alpine on the Eastern and Westerns Slopes. Flowers from March through June. Photo by SW Colorado...
Avalanche Lily (Erythronium grandiflorum)

Avalanche Lily (Erythronium grandiflorum)

Avalanche Lily (Erythronium grandiflorum ssp. grandiflorum). Native and common in moist meadows along the edges of melting snowbanks, and in moist spruce forests from foothills to alpine on the Eastern and Western Slopes. Blooms from May through July. Photo by Mo...
Dunckly Pass

Dunckly Pass

An aspen forest, near Chapman Reservoir, Dunckly Pass, Routt National Forest, Routt County. There is a nice campground on the reservoir. Photo by Mo...
Moss Phlox (Phlox muscoides)

Moss Phlox (Phlox muscoides)

Moss Phlox (Phlox muscoides), Phlox Family (Polemoniaceae), a native species found on sandy, barren soil and dry bluffs from the plains to the foothills on the Eastern and Western Slopes. Blooms from April through...