FEATURED ENTRIES FOR SUMMER, 2008 

Plants:  Yucca genus
Text:  How to photograph plants
Definition:  Synonym
Biography:  George Engelmann
Link:  Where to Purchase Seeds for Growing Native Plants

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. 

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Recent Additions to this Web Site

1)  Photographs added to this web site in 2008. 

For brevity, common names are not included in the list below, but when you click a link below you will go to a page with photographs and details about the plant, including all names.  
Click for a discussion of common and scientific names. 

1B)   New photographs of plants already on this web site:

March, 2008: New photographs of plants already on this web site

Cercocarpus montanus 
Fraxinus anomala

April, 2008: New photographs of plants already on this web site

Ephedra viridis
  Lupinus pusillus 
Zuckia brandegei 
Abronia fragrans 
Phlox longifolia 
Opuntia phaeacantha 
Populus deltoides 
Erodium cicutarium 
Yucca angustissima 
Allium macropetalum 
Negundo aceroides 
Betula fontinalis
Amelanchier utahensis 
Ostrya knowltonii 
Lomatium triternatum  
Streptanthus cordatus 
Claytonia lanceolata 
Antennaria dimorpha 
Balsamorhiza sagittata 
Mahonia repens 
Yucca baccata 
Negundo aceroides 
Ranunculus alismifolius 
Populus tremuloides 
Pulsatilla ludoviciana

May, 2008: New photographs of plants already on this web site

Senecio integerrimus 
Toxicoscordion venenosum 
Pinus ponderosa  
Collinsia parviflora 
Cymopterus bulbosus 
Peraphyllum ramosissimum

June, 2008: New photographs of plants already on this web site

Erythrocoma triflora 
Pedicularis procera 
Quercus gambelii 
Calochortus nuttallii 
Astragalus pattersonii 
Opuntia fragilis
Mirabilis glandulosa 
Rubacer parviflorum 
Geranium 
Pseudotsuga menziesii 
 Oreoxis bakeri 
Senecio fremontii 
 Lloydia serotina 
 Lithospermum multiflorum 
Oxyria digyna 
Noccaea montana  
 Psychrophila leptosepala 
Sambucus microbotrys 
Ranunculus macauleyi  
Phlox condensata  
Phacelia sericea

July, 2008: New photographs of plants already on this web site 

Apocynum cannabinum 
 Eremogone fendleri 
Packera werneriifolia 
 Castilleja sulphurea 
 Smelowskia calycina 
 Pyrrocoma crocea 
Packera crocata 
Galium septentrionale 
Calylophus lavandulifolia 
 Ranunculus eschscholtzii  
Castilleja occidentalis 
 Allium geyeri   
 Rydbergia grandiflora 
 Cilaria austromontana 
 Ranunculus eschscholtzii 
 Distegia involucrata 
 Scrophularia lanceolata 
 Ribes wolfii 
 Draba aurea  
 Geum macrophyllum 
 Aquilegia coerulea 
 Erigeron melanocephalus 
 Amerosedum lanceolatum 
 Castilleja miniata 
 Hirculus platysepalus 
 Salix petrophila 
 Erysimum capitatum 
 Lidia obtusiloba 
 Draba graminea

1C)  Where We Roamed for Photographs

Where We Roamed for Flower Photographs 6 
  Where We Roamed for Flower Photographs 7