Features for Spring 2013

Plant: Physaria acutifolia
Text: Plant Identification Problems
Definitions: Describing a Plant
Biography:  Charles Parry
Links: Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center

Colorado Rocky Mountain Wildflowers
app is now available for most smart devices:
Android and Apple, phones and tablets.
The app has photos and descriptions of over
600 plants found from the foothills to the Alpine zone in Colorado. Most of the plants are also found throughout the Rocky Mountains.
Click to view details. A free demo app is available.

Recent Additions to this Web Site

NOTE: All plant names on this web site are based on
John Kartesz's nationally recognized work,    
The Synthesis of the North American Flora. 
These names are in bold.
Alternate scientific names (synonyms) are not bold.

1)  Click below for 2013 photographs of species new to this web site.


May, 2013

2)  Click below for 2013 photographs of species already on this web site.

March, 2013
Lomatium parryi

April, 2013
Cymopterus constancei
Astragalus preussii
Rumex hymenosepalus
Orogenia linearifolia
Calochortus flexuosus

May, 2013

Krascheninnikovia lanata
Oreocarya revealii
Lycium pallidum
Grayia spinosa
Penstemon utahensis
Tetradymia spinosa
Stenogonum flexum
Tradescantia occidentalis
Linum puberulum
Erigeron argentatus
Penstemon lentus
Eriogonum lonchophyllum
Capsella bursa-pastoris
Phemeranthus brevifolius
Ipomopsis gunnisonii
Mirabilis multiflora
Penstemon breviculus
Tetraneuris ivesiana
Abronia fragrans
Yucca angustissima
Eriogonum alatum
Astragalus ceramicus
Ephedra cutleri

June, 2013

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October, 2013

November, 2013

Native Plants On-line Discussion Groups

   Do you have questions about native plants? Would you like to share information about native plants?    Join the Colorado and New Mexico Native Plants on-line botanical discussion groups 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 native plants, discuss growing native plants in your garden, learn about field trips, etc. 

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

2)    To subscribe to the very active New Mexico discussion group:
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