Wolf Creek BioBlitz

This is a guide for the Wolf Creek BioBlitz on August 22nd. Wolf Creek Pass straddles the Continental Divide between two of the largest intact wilderness areas in the Southern Rockies – the Weminuche and South San Juan wildernesses. Wolf Creek Pass is an important wildlife linkage that is ...more ↓

White Marsh Marigold 1
Caltha leptosepala
Columbian Monkshood 2
Aconitum columbianum
Mountain Parsley 3
Pseudocymopterus montanus
blunt-fruited sweet-cicely 4
Osmorhiza depauperata
Osha 5
Ligusticum porteri
Hemlock Parsley 6
Conioselinum scopulorum
Fendler's cowbane 6
Oxypolis fendleri
Eastwood's Woodroot
Podistera eastwoodiae
Arizona willow
Salix arizonica
Short-fruit Willow 7
Salix brachycarpa
hoary willow 8
Salix candida
Mountain Willow 9
Salix monticola
tea-leafed willow 8
Salix planifolia
Autumn Willow 10
Salix serissima
Wolf's willow 9
Salix wolfii
Great-spurred Violet 8
Viola selkirkii
heartleaf bittercress 11
Cardamine cordifolia
Smith's whitlowgrass 12
Draba smithii
water sedge 13
Carex aquatilis
hoary sedge 14
Carex canescens
lesser tussock sedge 15
Carex diandra
ebony sedge 16
Carex ebenea
sheep sedge 16
Carex illota
mud sedge 13
Carex limosa
livid sedge 17
Carex livida
southern beaked sedge 18
Carex utriculata
pale spikerush 19
Eleocharis macrostachya
Russet Cotton-grass 10
Eriophorum chamissonis
slender cottongrass 20
Eriophorum gracile
whitebristle cottongrass
Eriophorum altaicum neogaeum
Simple Kobresia 17
Kobresia simpliciuscula
Northern Sweet Grass 17
Hierochloe hirta
Porter's false needlegrass 21
Ptilagrostis porteri
bluejoint 22
Calamagrostis canadensis
tufted hair grass 22
Deschampsia cespitosa
blue wild rye 22
Elymus glaucus
slender wheatgrass 23
Elymus trachycaulus
muttongrass 22
Poa fendleriana
Vasey's Oatgrass 8
Danthonia intermedia
Thurber fescue 21
Festuca thurberi
june grass 22
Koeleria macrantha
Meadow Foxtail 22
Alopecurus pratensis
spike trisetum 22
Trisetum spicatum
drummond's rush 22
Juncus drummondii
Tracy's Rush 24
Juncus tracyi
Small-flower Woodrush 22
Luzula parviflora
north wind bog orchid 25
Platanthera aquilonis
Corn Lily, False Hellebore 26
Veratrum tenuipetalum
Narrowleaf Peatmoss 13
Sphagnum angustifolium
Baltic Sphagnum 17
Sphagnum balticum

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