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Plants of Eldorado Canyon State Park

Eldorado Canyon State Park lies eight miles southwest of the city of Boulder along the eastern edge of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains in an ecotone between the grasslands below and coniferous forests in and above the park. The park is made up of of 1,442 acres owned by the State of ...more ↓

field horsetail 1
Equisetum arvense
rough horsetail 2
Equisetum hyemale
Smooth Horsetail 3
Equisetum laevigatum
Variegated Horsetail 4
Equisetum variegatum
Fendler's lipfern 5
Myriopteris fendleri
common bracken 6
Pteridium aquilinum
brittle bladderfern 7
Cystopteris fragilis
lady fern 8
Athyrium filix-femina
northern spleenwort 9
Asplenium septentrionale
Rocky Mountain woodsia 10
Woodsia scopulina
male fern 11
Dryopteris filix-mas
Rocky Mountain Juniper 12
Juniperus scopulorum
Common Juniper 13
Juniperus communis
Ponderosa Pine 14
Pinus ponderosa
Common Douglas-fir 15
Pseudotsuga menziesii
blue spruce 16
Picea pungens
Red Clover 17
Trifolium pratense
white clover 18
Trifolium repens
alfalfa 19
Medicago sativa
black medick 20
Medicago lupulina
white sweet clover 21
Melilotus albus
yellow sweet clover 21
Melilotus officinalis
purple crownvetch 22
Securigera varia
silvery lupine 23
Lupinus argenteus
Nevada Sweet Pea 24
Lathyrus lanszwertii
broad-leaved sweet pea 25
Lathyrus latifolius
American vetch 26
Vicia americana
Drummond's Milkvetch 3
Astragalus drummondii
Flexible Milkvetch 27
Astragalus flexuosus
Laxmann's Milkvetch 3
Astragalus laxmannii
Loose-flower Milkvetch 28
Astragalus tenellus
Parry's Milkvetch 29
Astragalus parryi
Early Purple Milkvetch 30
Astragalus shortianus
wild licorice 31
Glycyrrhiza lepidota
stemless point-vetch 32
Oxytropis lambertii
Fragrant Indigobush 33
Amorpha nana
spreadfruit goldenbanner 34
Thermopsis divaricarpa
Siberian peashrub 35
Caragana arborescens
slimflower scurfpea 36
Pediomelum tenuiflorum
wild strawberry 37
Fragaria vesca
Virginia strawberry 38
Fragaria virginiana
shrubby cinquefoil 39
Dasiphora fruticosa
bigflower cinquefoil 40
Drymocallis fissa
horse cinquefoil 41
Potentilla hippiana
rough cinquefoil 42
Potentilla norvegica
prairie cinquefoil 3
Potentilla pensylvanica
Sulphur Cinquefoil 13
Potentilla recta
roadside agrimony 43
Agrimonia striata
Yellow Avens 44
Geum aleppicum
large-leaved avens 45
Geum macrophyllum
Water Avens 46
Geum rivale
prairie smoke 3
Geum triflorum
Rocky Mountain raspberry 47
Rubus deliciosus
red raspberry 43
Rubus idaeus
American red raspberry 48
Rubus idaeus strigosus
Thimbleberry 49
Rubus parviflorus
prairie rose 50
Rosa arkansana
Woods' rose 51
Rosa woodsii
alder-leaved mountain-mahogany 52
Cercocarpus montanus
Greene's mountain ash 53
Sorbus scopulina
Saskatoon 54
Amelanchier alnifolia
fleshy hawthorn 4
Crataegus succulenta
Shiny Cotoneaster 55
Cotoneaster lucidus
apple 56
Malus pumila
choke cherry 35
Prunus virginiana
American Plum 57
Prunus americana
mountain ninebark 58
Physocarpus monogynus
rockspiraea 59
Holodiscus dumosus
Buckbrush 60
Ceanothus fendleri
stinging nettle 61
Urtica dioica
Pennsylvania pellitory 62
Parietaria pensylvanica
Siberian elm 3
Ulmus pumila
common hops 63
Humulus lupulus
netleaf hackberry 64
Celtis reticulata
woodland pinedrops 65
Pterospora andromedea
One-flowered Wintergreen 66
Moneses uniflora
Kinnikinnick 67
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
dark-throated shooting star 68
Primula pauciflora
pygmy-flower rock-jasmine 10
Androsace septentrionalis
scarlet gilia 69
Ipomopsis aggregata
White-flowered Scarlet Gilia 29
Ipomopsis aggregata candida
Iron Ipomopsis 70
Ipomopsis laxiflora
narrow-leaf mountain trumpet 71
Collomia linearis
Sticky Gilia 72
Aliciella pinnatifida
red osier dogwood 73
Cornus sericea
fivepetal cliffbush 59
Jamesia americana
Jeweled Blazingstar 74
Mentzelia speciosa
bushy blazingstar 3
Mentzelia dispersa
showy milkweed 75
Asclepias speciosa
Spreading dogbane 76
Apocynum androsaemifolium
Northern Bedstraw 77
Galium boreale
fragrant bedstraw 78
Galium triflorum
catchweed bedstraw 79
Galium aparine
monument plant 80
Frasera speciosa
Simpson's hedgehog cactus 81
Pediocactus simpsonii
Missouri Foxtail Cactus 82
Escobaria missouriensis
brittle prickly-pear 83
Opuntia fragilis
brown-spined prickly-pear 84
Opuntia phaeacantha
starvation prickly-pear 85
Opuntia polyacantha
plains prickly pear 86
Opuntia macrorhiza

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