by CONPS ME | May 11, 2023
Great Plains Sandhill Grasslands and Shrublands Near Sand Creek Massacre Natl. Historic Site, Kiowa Co. 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 8, 2021
Western Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Colorado Tallgrass Prairie Natural Area, Boulder County Summary The tallgrass prairie is characterized by three species of waist-high grasses which interestingly all have bluish stems during the summer growing season which turn...
by CONPS ME | Mar 8, 2021
Western Great Plains Shortgrass Prairie Pawnee Buttes National Grassland, Weld County Shortgrass Prairie The shortgrass prairie occurs on the eastern plains of Colorado from the foothills to the eastern border in Nebraska and Kansas and the Oklahoma panhandle. The...
