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Join the Colorado and/or New Mexico Native Plants online botanical discussion groups for amateurs and professionals. Participate as much or as little as you want to. Send in photographs of native plants for identification and discuss key issues about conserving native plants, techniques for growing native plants in your garden, plant photography, etc.

Be aware that the first two Facebook pages linked immediately below often have irrelevant, wandering, misinformed comments. The third link below is to the New Mexico listserv group which is very good with well thought out questions and very courteous and helpful responses.

1) Click to join the ColoradoNativePlant Facebook discussion group.

2) Click to join the Colorado Native Plant Society Facebook Plant discussion group.

3) Click to join the New Mexico native plant discussion group.

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Below you will find links to comments & updates on three Colorado floras.

Floras are complex and very time consuming to write. They demand not only expertise in the plants of an area but also expertise in technical writing, logic, and scientific precision. Three floras of Colorado strive for these goals and achieve them to various degrees, but all three have room for improvement, especially in the construction of clear and accurate keys. Weber's flora has many helpful comments found nowhere else, but the keys are needlessly complex. Ackerfield's flora improves on Weber's but contains problems with conflicting nomenclature, poor photographs, and keys. Heil and O'Kane's flora is the best for the Four Corners region (and beyond) and has the great advantage of being put together by many experts, not just one author (as in Weber and Ackerfield's floras).

A Utah Flora by Welsh is often the flora I turn to for the best keys and most interesting and accurate comments.

Flora Neomexicana III by Allred is a very well researched flora that has good keys and very helpful line drawings.

Comments & Updates on Weber and Wittmann's Colorado Flora

Click here for comments on Weber and Wittmann's 2012, 4th edition of Colorado Flora.

Click to order and read more about Colorado Flora: Western Slope. Eastern Slope.

Comments & Updates on Heil and O'Kane's
Flora of the Four Corners Region

Click here for comments, corrections, and additions to the 2013,
Flora of the Four Corners Region.

Click to order and read more about this flora.

Click for comments about Ackerfield's
Flora of Colorado