2023 Photo Contest, 1st Place, Landscape Category

2023 Photo Contest, 1st Place, Landscape Category

2023 Photo Contest, 1st Place, Landscape Category: “Aquilegia coerulea”. Photo by Leslie Madson. Leslie Madson took this photo on the Island Lake via Ice Lakes Trail outside of Silverton, CO. The trail is 7.7 miles long, considered difficult but is popular...
Broom Fork-moss (Dicranum scoparium)

Broom Fork-moss (Dicranum scoparium)

Broom Fork-moss (Dicranum scoparium), the broom forkmoss, in the Dicranaceae Family is native to most of the northern hemisphere. In Colorado it is found from the foothills to occasionally, the alpine on the eastern and western slopes. It usually forms tufts or mats...
Marsh Thyme-moss (Plagiomnium elipticum)

Marsh Thyme-moss (Plagiomnium elipticum)

Leaves serrate from apex to base, to almost or quite entire; leaves commonly rounded at the apex. Leaves not decurrent, leaf cells elongate, ; margin weakly serrate, with relatively few arrested teeth. The stem apex forms a rosette with massed paraphyses (erect...