by CONPS ME | Sep 11, 2023
Landscaping with Field-collected Native Plants Auuilegia Vol 2 No 5 September - October 1978 LANDSCAPING WITH FIELD-COLLECTED NATIVE PLANTSby Stan Metsker On the south edge of Colorado Springs there is a large area being developed for homes. This land has been grazed...
by CONPS ME | May 11, 2023
Near Sand Creek Massacre Natl. Historic Site, Kiowa Co. Great Plains Sandhill Grasslands and Shrublands It is all too easy to take a cursory look at the rolling plains in the eastern one-third of Colorado and think that it is all the same. In the Plains Plants section...
by CONPS ME | Mar 10, 2023
Loveland Pass, Summit County Rocky Mountain Alpine Turf Plant Community Summary The Alpine Turf Plant Community can be thought of as an ecological successor of the Alpine Fellfield – Cushion Plant Community previously described in this Alpine Life Zone section. That...
by CONPS ME | Feb 20, 2023
The Yellow Lady's Slipper Orchid - Cypripedium calceolus Aquilegia Vol. 2, No. 1 January - February 1978 THE YELLOW LADY’S SLIPPER ORCHIDCypripedium calceolus, by William A. Weber One of the really endangered species in the Colorado Flora, but unfortunately not...
by CONPS ME | Jun 18, 2022
Two New Species Found in Colorado Jennifer Ackerfield, the Head Curator of Natural History Collections at the Denver Botanic Gardens has written a blog about the “discovery” of two new species in Colorado. The first species, Physaria nelsonii, was...
