Features and Recent Additions

Colorado Native Plants Discussion Group

Do you have questions about Colorado native plants? Would you like to share information about Colorado native plants? Join the Colorado Native Plants botanical discussion group for amateurs and professionals. Once you sign up you can participate as much or as little as you want to. Send in photographs of your mystery plants for identification, discuss key issues about conserving Colorado's native plants, discuss growing native plants in your garden, learn about field trips, etc.

Click to view the Colorado Native Plant discussion site
and to enter your email address to sign up..

Recent Additions to this Web Site

1) New photographs of scenery added in "Where We Roamed for Photographs".

Where We Roamed for Photographs page 3
Where We Roamed for Photographs page 4

2) Every winter l review all entries on this web site to add more information, catch typos, redo photographs, etc. This winter I added a good deal of descriptive information and I enlarged many photographs. I hope you enjoy the results.

3) Photographs added to this web site in 2008.

For brevity, common names are not included in the list below. When you click a link you will go to a page with photographs and details about the plant, including all names.
Remember that most plants have never been given a common name.
Click for a discussion of common and scientific names.

3A) 2008 photographs of plants new to this web site:
(See B below for new photographs of plants already on this web site.)

Photographs added in April, 2008

Astragalus preussii
Abies concolor

Photographs added in May, 2008

4) There are several new wildflower slide shows on the Colorado Native Plant Society web site. Enjoy looking through the web site after you view the slide shows, and then join the Society -- great field trips, great friends, great cause. Field trips are free and open to everyone.

5) For wonderful watercolor renditions of many plants on this web site, see Donald Davidson's Traveling Artist Wildflowers Project.