Colorado Native Plant Species Sheets - Wild Ones Front Range Chapter

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Achillea millefolium
(Common Yarrow)

Agastache foeniculum
(Anise Hyssop/Blue Giant Hyssop)

Agastache rupestris
(Sunset Hyssop)

Agoseris aurantiaca
(Orange Agoseris or Mountain Dandelion)

Allium cernuum
(Nodding Onion)

Amelanchier alnifolia
(Saskatoon Serviceberry)

Amorpha canescens
(Silvery Lead Plant)

Amorpha fruticosa
(False Indigo)

Amorpha nana
(Dwarf Leadplant)

Amsonia jonesii
(Jones’ Bluestar)

Anaphalis margaritacea
(Western – Pearly Everlasting)

Andropogon gerardii
(Big Bluestem)

Andropogon hallii (Sand Bluestem)

Antennaria parvifolia
(Sun-Loving Pussytoes)

Aquilegia caerulea (Rocky Mountain Columbine, Blue Columbine)

Aquilegia (chrysantha Golden Columbine)

Argemone polyanthemos (Crested Prickly poppy)

Aristida purpurea (Purple Three-Awn)

Artemisia frigida (Fringed Sage)

Artemisia ludoviciana
(Praire Sage, White Sage)

Asclepias incarnata (Swamp/Rose Milkweed)

Asclepias speciosa (Showy Milkweed)

Asclepias tuberosa (Butterfly Weed/ Milkweed)

Asclepius verticillata (Whorled Milkweed)

Atriplex canescens (Fourwing Saltbush)

Berberis/Mahonia fremontii (Fremont’s Mahonia, Fremont’s Barberry)

Berlandiera lyrata (Chocolate Flower, Lyreleaf Greeneyes)

Bothriochloa laguroides
(Silver Bluestem, Silver Beard Grass)

Bouteloua curtipendula
(Side-oats Grama Grass)

Bouteloua gracilis (Blue Grama Grass)

Brickellia eupatorioides
(False Boneset)

Callirhoe involucrata (Winecups, Purple Poppy Mallow)

Carex brevior (Plains Oval Sedge/Shortbeak Sedge)

Celtis occidentalis (Common Hackberry TREE)

Celtis reticulata (Western Hackberry Tree)

Cercocarpus montanus True (Mountain Mahogany SHRUB)

Chamaebatiaria millefolium (Fernbush, Desert Sweet SHRUB)

Chamerion angustifolium (Fireweed)

Chasmanthium latifolium (Northern Sea Oats grass)

Clematis ligusticifolia (White Virgin’s Bower VINE)

Cleome lutea (Yellow Bee Plant)

Cleome serrulata (Rocky Mountain Bee Plant)

Cleome trachysperma
(Red-Whisker Clammyweed)

Coreopsis lanceolata
(Lanceleaf Tickseed)

Coreopsis tinctoria (Plains Coreopsis, Golden Tickseed)

Cucurbita foetidissima (Buffalo Gourd)

Dalea purpurea (Purple Prairie Clover)

Datura wrightii (Sacred Datura, Jimsonweed)

Deschampsia caespitosa
(Tufted Hair Grass)

Dieteria bigelovii (Bigelow’s Tansyaster)

Dieteria canescens (Hoary Tansyaster)

Echinacea angustifolia (Blacksamson Echinacea)

Echinacea pallida (Pale Purple Coneflower)

Echinacea purpurea (Purple Coneflower)

Engelmannia peristenia (Engelmann’s Daisy)

Ephedra viridis (Mormon Tea / Jointfir)

Ericameria nauseosa (Rabbitbrush, Rubber Rabbitbrush, Chamisa)

Ericameria nauseosa var. nauseosa
(Dwarf Blue Rabbitbrush)

Erigeron divergens (Spreading Fleabane/Daisy)

Erigeron speciosus (Showy/Aspen Fleabane, Aspen Daisy)

Eriocoma hymenoides
(Indian Ricegrass)

Eriocoma robusta
(Sleepygrass)

Eriogonum alatum (Winged Buckwheat)

Annual Buckwheat (Eriogonum annuum)

Eriogonum flavum (Golden Buckwheat)

Eriogonum jamesii
(James’ Buckwheat, Antelope Sage)

Eriogonum umbellatum
(Sulphur Flower Sulphur Buckwheat)

Erysimum capitatum
(Western Wallflower)

Euphorbia marginata
(Snow on the Mountain)

Fallugia paradoxa (Apache Plume)

Gaillardia aristata (Blanketflower)

Geum triflorum (Prairie Smoke)

Glycyrrhiza lepidota (American/Wild Licorice)

Grindelia squarrosa (Curlycup Gumweed)

Helianthus annuus (Common/Annual Sunflower)

Helianthus maximiliani (Maximilian Sunflower)

Helianthus nuttallii (Nuttall’s sunflower)

Helianthus pumilus (Little/Dwarf Sunflower)

Heliomeris multiflora (Showy Goldeneye)

Hesperaloe parviflora (Red Yucca)

Heterotheca villosa (Hairy False Goldenaster)

Holodiscus dumosus (Rock Spirea, Cliff Spirea)

Humulus lupulus var neomexicanus (Common Hop)

Hymenothrix (dissecta Bahia, Cutleaf)

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