Aquilegia Number 46.2 Spring 2022

Featured Stories
Frank Tweedy’s Colorado “Novelties” Mark the End of an Era BY HOLLIS MARRIOTT
A Floristic Inventory of McInnis Canyon National Conservation Area BY STEPHEN STERN
Jack Carter’s Enduring Legacy to CoNPS BY JENNIFER BOUSSELOT

Research and Reports
Hopping Around: Mutualism between Ants and the Hops Azure Butterfly
on Hop Vines BY EMILY MOONEY, LUIS LOWE, GABRIELLE ISAACKS, AND ROB SCHORR
Effects of Fire Severity on the Floral Visitor Community, Pollination, and Reproduction of a Dominant
Flowering Subalpine Shrub BY BLYSSALYN V. BIEBER, ADRIAN L. CARPER, AND SHANNON M. MURPHY

Columns
Botany Basics: General Classification of Plants BY MAGGIE GADDIS
Conservation Corner: Discovering iNaturalist BY MO EWING
Plant Profile: The Underground Life of the Sand Lily (Leucocrinum montanum) BY JIM BORLAND
Restoration Roundup: The United Nations Decade of Ecosystem Restoration BY SUE DINGWEL
Poetry: The Dove of Evening BY ARTHUR CLIFFORD

News, Events, and Announcements
New Membership and Communications Coordinator: Anne Beard
Society-Wide Events
Webinars
Chapter Events and Updates
Cross-Pollination Events
Member Profile: Linda Smith BY MO EWING
Can You Identify These Spring-Blooming Bushes?

Aquilegia Number 46.1 Winter 2022

Greetings from Our New Executive Director, Maggie Gaddis!

Featured Stories
Report on the 18TH Annual Colorado Rare Plant Symposium: “Globally Imperiled Plants Found in Southeastern Colorado” BY JESSICA SMITH
Report on the 45TH Annual CoNPS Conference: “Short Grass Prairie & a Long Look Back”
Conference Presentations
Field Trips
Colorado Native Plants for Phytoremediation: Improving Air Quality with Plants
in Urban and Suburban Landscapes BY ERIC FUSELIER

Columns
Botany Basics: The Winter Biology of Plants BY MAGGIE GADDIS
Conservation Corner: Fens in Colorado—Their Vulnerabilities and the Threats They Face BY GAY AUSTIN
Garden Natives: Melampodium leucanthum, Blackfoot Daisy BY JIM BORLAND
Restoration Roundup: Colorado Ecosystems as Models for Restoring
Our Economies BY JOHN H. GIORDANENGO
News, Events, and Announcements

Society-Wide Events
Webinars
The Redesigned CoNPS Website
Chapter Events and Updates

Cross-Pollination Events
Legislative Updates
More Photo Contest Results

Aquilegia Number 45.3 Summer 2021 (Revised)

2021 Annual CoNPS Conference
18TH Annual Colorado Rare Plant Symposium: “Globally Imperiled Plants Found in Southeastern Colorado”
45TH Annual CoNPS Conference: “The Short Grass Prairie and a Long Look Back”
Speakers and Presentations
Field Trips
Conference Agenda
Silent Auction and Photo Contest Entries
Trinidad Maps and Information
Registration

Featured Stories
Grassland Ecology and Species Identification BY MAGGIE GADDIS
Colorado Native Plants for Phytoremediation: Improving Stormwater Quality with Plants in Urban and Suburban Landscapes BY ERIC FUSELIER

Research and Reports
Can Shrubs Act as Stepping-Stones for Subalpine Vegetation to Move Uphill? BY LAUREL BRIGHAM
A New-for-Colorado Bryophyte Species BY STACEY ANDERSON

Columns
Garden Natives: Candelabra Cactus (Cylindropuntia imbricata) BY JIM BORLAND
Tips from the Pros: Can a Human Transplant Avoid: Being a Weed on the Land? BY DENNIS SWIFTDEER PAIGE
Book Review: Spring Wildflowers of Utah’s Red Rock Desert by Peter Lesica and Walter Fertig REVIEWED BY HOLLIS MARRIOTT
Poetry: Morning Glory BY JANET FICHTER
Member Profile: Alice Eastwood Scholarship Awardees
Can You ID These Prairie Flowers? BY MARLENE BORNEMAN

Aquilegia Number 45.2 Spring 2021

Featured Story
Yes, Virginia, Manzanitas Do Grow Wild in Colorado! The Cultivation of Arctostaphylos in Colorado BY PANAYOTI KELAIDIS

Research and Reports
Epipactis gigantea Population Stable, but Numbers and Growth Tied to Precipitation Patterns BY DENISE C. WILSON AND REA ORTHNER

Columns
Botany Basics: “Hair” and Its Role in Plants BY MARY MENZ
Conservation Corner: Will Colorado Protect Rare Plants from Oil and Gas? BY BRAD KLAFEHN
Garden Natives: The Woody Artemisias: The Species and Their Propagation: Part 3 of a Series BY JIM BORLAND
Tips from the Pros: Think before You Buy Soil BY MAGGIE GADDIS
Poetry: Leucocrinum montanum BY ARTHUR CLIFFORD
Book Review: Herbarium: The Quest to Preserve & Classify the World’s Plants, by Barbara M. Thiers REVIEWED BY SUZANNE DINGWELL
Meet the New Aquilegia Team
Blast from the Past: Growing a Colorado Native Shrub, Kinnikinnick or Bearberry (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi) BY GAIL EVANS
AND KIM VORIES
Can You ID These Spring Flowers? BY MARLENE BORNEMAN

Aquilegia Number 45.1 Winter 2021

Featured Story
Those Pesky Weeds: A Short History of the Medicinal, the Noxious, and the Edible Non-native Plants BY MARY MENZ

Research and Reports
Establishing Native Plants in an Orchard to Enhance Ecological Systems BY EMILY LOCKARD

Columns
Conservation Corner: Through the Loupe to the Landscape: Biodiversity from an Ecological Perspective BY SIENNA WESSEL
Garden Natives: The Woody Artemisias: Leaf Morphology and Physiology Part 2 of a Series BY JIM BORLAND
Pollinator Power: Not All Bees Are Created Equal: Honeybee Apiaries on Public Lands and Consequences for Native Plants BY ELLIE STEVENSON
Poetry: Love of Life BY ARTHUR CLIFFORD
In Memoriam: Gayle Weinstein BY JIM BORLAND AND RICK BRUNE
In Memoriam: Jim Fuchs
Can You ID these Seedheads? BY MARLENE BORNEMAN

Aquilegia Number 44.4 Fall 2020

Featured Stories
2020 Colorado Rare Plant Symposium: Progress on Conservation Efforts BY JILL HANDWERK AND THE CNHP BOTANY VEGETATION ECOLOGY TEAM
2020 CoNPS Annual Conference: Here’s What You Missed: Conference Presentations, Photo Contest
Celebrating the Bicentennial of Stephen H. Long’s Expedition. Part 4 of 4: Noteworthy Species from the Arkansas River Valley to the Colorado–New Mexico Border BY MIKE KINTGEN AND JEN TOEWS
Front and Center: A Suburban Yard Makeover BY JENNIFER BOUSSELOT
Canyon Call BY LORAINE YEATTS

Columns
Conservation Corner: Ecological Services of Weeds BY JOHN C.VICKERY
Garden Natives: The Woody Artemisias: An Introduction to the Species BY JIM BORLAND
Poetry: Datura BY LOUISE WILDEMAN
Restoration Roundup: Transforming an Existing Growing Space into an Ethnobotany Garden BY MARY MENZ

Research and Reports
Lichens and Spruce Beetle Disturbance: Maybe It isn’t so Bad After All BY ANNA FREUNDLICH AND EMILY HOLT

Aquilegia 2020 Winter Volume 44.1

Featured Stories
Celebrating the Bicentennial of Stephen H. Long’s Expedition. Part 1 of 4: An Introduction to the Voyage
and Noteworthy Species from the Colorado Border to the Rockies BY MIKE KINTGEN AND JEN TOEWS
Changes in the Colorado Alpine: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly BY TIM SEASTEDT

Columns
Conservation Corner: Front Range Physocarpus and the Eastern Woodland-Prairie Element BY AUDREY SPENCER
Garden Natives: A Coreopsis Lookalike—Greenthread (Thelesperma filifolium) BY JIM BORLAND
Restoration Roundup: From High Desert Scrub to Colorado Native Plant Garden BY JUDY KENNEDY
Poetry: Earthly Bride BY ARTHUR CLIFFORD

Research and Reports
Prelude to a Spritz: Characterization of a Riparian Cottonwood Forest Prior to Flooding by the Chatfield Storage Reallocation Project BY ASHLEY PURCELL AND ERIN K. BISSELL
Documenting the Insect and Microbial Communities that Utilize Gambel Oak (Quercus gambelii Nutt.) to Inform Conservation Management BY RACHAEL SITZ AND MELISSA SCHREINER

Media Reviews
The Cactus Plot Murder in the High Desert by Vicky Rannkka REVIEW BY SHIRLEY NILSON
Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? by Bill McKibben REVIEW BY JACK CARTER

News and Announcements
Ackerfield Named Head Curator of DBG Natural History Collections
Chapter Events
CoNPS Workshops
Cross-Pollination Events
Can You ID these Seedheads? BY KELLY AMBLER

Aquilegia 2014 Annual Conference Special issue Volume 38 No. 3

Speakers and Abstracts
Annual Meeting Field Trips
Map
Lodging
Agenda
Registration Form
In Wildness Lies the Preservation of the Economy

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Aquilegia Spring 2014 Volume 38.1

Articles
Increased Advocacy Efforts Favored
The North American Native Plant Society
Taking Native Plants to School
Phylogenetics Simplified
Plant Profiles

Earlier issues may be accessed and downloaded from Regis University by clicking HERE.