Features and Recent Additions

1) This web site is now the home of the San Juan/Four Corners Native Plant Society
web page.

2) During the winter of 2009-2010, I doubled the size of most photographs on this
web site and I added maps showing the range of each species.

3) Click for the new page of plant keys and plant lists.

4) Click for a slide show of flora in the Canyons of the Ancients National Monument and
click again for a slide show of the flora of Charles Parry, "King of Colorado Botany".

5) Click for new biographical information on Frederick Pursh, Wilhelm Suksdorf, and
Thomas Nuttall.

6) Following is a list of plant photographs added to this web site in 2010.

For brevity, common names are not included in this list,
but when you click a link below you will be directed to a page that has common name
( as well as photographs and details about the plant).
Click for a discussion about common and scientific names.

6A) Photographs of plants new to this web site in 2010:
(See 6B below for new photographs of plants already on this web site.)

April, 2010: Photographs of plants new to this web site

Mimulus suksdorfii
Cleomella palmeriana
Astragalus newberryi
Astragalus cronquistii
Camissonia scapoidea
Oreocarya paradoxa
Oreocarya humilis

May, 2010: Photographs of plants new to this web site

Penstemon angustifolius
Stenogonum flexum
Cryptantha gypsophila
Cymopterus constancei
Viola nuttallii
Lupinus brevicaulis
Hedysarum boreale
Astragalus ceramicus variety ceramicus
Phlox austromontana
Astragalus wingatanus
Erigeron aphanactis
Yucca baileyi
Coryphantha vivipara

June, 2010: Photographs of plants new to this web site

Aphyllon uniflorum
Oxytropis lambertii
Frankenia jamesii
Echinocereus fendleri
Navarretia breweri
Galium triflorum
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
Draba fladnizensis variety pattersonii
Oxytropis parryi
Linanthastrum nuttallii
Pyrola chlorantha
Salix brachycarpa
Salix planifolia
Salix drummondiana
Salix monticola
Salix scouleriana

July, 2010: Photographs of plants new to this web site

Salix exigua
Asclepias subverticillata
Veronica catenata
Pyrola picta
Trautvetteria caroliniensis
Hirculus serpyllifolius subspecies chrysanthus (Saxifraga chrysantha)
Stellaria irrigua
Cirsium eatonii variety hesperium
Pedicularis scopulorum
Penstemon hallii
Salix leavigata
Stellaria longifolia
Pyrola minor
Cryptogramma stelleri

August, 2010: Photographs of plants new to this web site

Botrychium minganense

September, 2010: Photographs of plants new to this web site

October, 2010: Photographs of plants new to this web site

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