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Plants of Castlewood Canyon State Park

Castlewood Canyon State Park is located in central Douglas County, one of the fastest growing counties in the nation. It lies east of Interstate 25 and is equidistant between the two largest metropolitan areas within Colorado - Denver and Colorado Springs. The park lies at the intersection of ...more ↓

Alfalfa 1
Medicago sativa
American Plum 2
Prunus americana
Apache plume 3
Fallugia paradoxa
Big Bur-reed 4
Sparganium eurycarpum
Big-flower Cinquefoil 5
Drymocallis fissa
Bigbract Verbena 6
Verbena bracteata
Britton's Skullcap 7
Scutellaria brittonii
Canada violet 8
Viola canadensis
Canada wild rye 9
Elymus canadensis
Catnip 10
Nepeta cataria
Choke Cherry 11
Prunus virginiana
Common Cowparsnip 12
Heracleum maximum
Common Douglas-fir 13
Pseudotsuga menziesii
Common Juniper 14
Juniperus communis
Common Lambsquarters 15
Chenopodium album
Common Motherwort 16
Leonurus cardiaca
Common Purslane 17
Portulaca oleracea
Common Toadflax 18
Linaria vulgaris
Curly-cup Gumweed 18
Grindelia squarrosa
Dewystem Willow 19
Salix irrorata
Drummond's Milkvetch 1
Astragalus drummondii
Early Purple Milkvetch 20
Astragalus shortianus
Fendler's Waterleaf 21
Hydrophyllum fendleri
Fendler's lipfern 22
Myriopteris fendleri
Fendler's pennycress 23
Noccaea fendleri
Fendler's ragwort 24
Packera fendleri
Field Horsetail 25
Equisetum arvense
Fivepetal Cliffbush 26
Jamesia americana
Flexible Milkvetch 27
Astragalus flexuosus
Front Range Beardtongue 28
Penstemon virens
Gambel oak 12
Quercus gambelii
Geyer's onion 29
Allium geyeri
Great Plains yucca 30
Yucca glauca
Gunnison's mariposa lily 6
Calochortus gunnisonii
Harebell 31
Campanula rotundifolia
Harsh False Goldenaster 32
Heterotheca hirsutissima
Indian blanket 33
Gaillardia pulchella
Kinnikinnick 34
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
Laxmann's Milkvetch 1
Astragalus laxmannii
Lewis flax 35
Linum lewisii
Littleleaf Alumroot 6
Heuchera parvifolia
Long-stolon Sedge 1
Carex inops
Male fern 1
Dryopteris filix-mas
Meadow Deathcamas 36
Toxicoscordion venenosum
Midwestern Carrionflower 37
Smilax lasioneura
Missouri goldenrod 38
Solidago missouriensis
Mountain goldenbean 39
Thermopsis montana
Musk Thistle 40
Carduus nutans
Narrowleaf Willow 1
Salix exigua
New Mexican woodsia 41
Woodsia neomexicana
Northern Bedstraw 42
Galium boreale
Nuttall's Sunflower 43
Helianthus nuttallii
Nuttall's Violet 44
Viola nuttallii
Nuttall's larkspur 45
Delphinium nuttallianum
Nylon Hedgehog Cactus 46
Echinocereus viridiflorus
Oriental Desert-parsley 47
Lomatium orientale
Parry's Milkvetch 30
Astragalus parryi
Pine Dropseed 48
Blepharoneuron tricholepis
Ponderosa Pine 49
Pinus ponderosa
Prairie Alumroot 50
Heuchera richardsonii
Prairie Bluebells 51
Mertensia lanceolata
Prairie False Dandelion 52
Nothocalais cuspidata
Redstem Stork's-bill 53
Erodium cicutarium
Richardson's geranium 54
Geranium richardsonii
Rocky Mountain Juniper 55
Juniperus scopulorum
Rocky Mountain Raspberry 56
Rubus deliciosus
Russian olive 18
Elaeagnus angustifolia
Scarlet Globemallow 57
Sphaeralcea coccinea
Showy Milkweed 58
Asclepias speciosa
Sidebells Penstemon 59
Penstemon secundiflorus
Silverleaf phacelia 60
Phacelia hastata
Simpson's hedgehog cactus 61
Pediocactus simpsonii
Slender Leafy Spurge 62
Euphorbia virgata
Sulphur Buckwheat 63
Eriogonum umbellatum
Texas toadflax 64
Nuttallanthus texanus
Textile onion 1
Allium textile
Utah Serviceberry 65
Amelanchier utahensis
Virginia creeper 66
Parthenocissus quinquefolia
Virginia strawberry 67
Fragaria virginiana
Western Ragweed 68
Ambrosia psilostachya
Western Snowberry 69
Symphoricarpos occidentalis
Western Wheatgrass 70
Pascopyrum smithii
White Mountain Sedge 71
Carex geophila
White Point-vetch 72
Oxytropis sericea
White Sweetclover 73
Melilotus albus
Wild Strawberry 74
Fragaria vesca
Woods' rose 75
Rosa woodsii
Yellow Owl's-clover 76
Orthocarpus luteus
alder-leaved mountain-mahogany 21
Cercocarpus montanus
bastard toadflax 77
Comandra umbellata
big bluestem 78
Andropogon gerardi
black chokeberry 79
Aronia melanocarpa
blue grama 80
Bouteloua gracilis
blue water-speedwell 81
Veronica anagallis-aquatica
bristly haircap moss 82
Polytrichum piliferum
brittle bladderfern 83
Cystopteris fragilis
bull thistle 84
Cirsium vulgare
catchweed bedstraw 85
Galium aparine
cheatgrass 86
Bromus tectorum
common St. John's-wort 87
Hypericum perforatum

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