Plants of Trinidad Lake State Park

Trinidad Lake State Park sits on 2,229 acres 5 miles to the southwest of Trinidad at the foot of the Sangre de Cristo mountain range in the Purgatoire River Valley. The ecosystems within the park make up the transition zone between the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains and include pinyon-juniper ...more ↓

Barnyardgrass ¹
Echinochloa crus-galli

Green Bristle Grass ²
Setaria viridis

mat sandbur ³
Cenchrus longispinus

Switchgrass ⁴
Panicum virgatum

little bluestem ⁵
Schizachyrium scoparium

Big Bluestem ⁶
Andropogon gerardii

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Plants of Trinidad Lake State Park

Barnyardgrass 1 Echinochloa crus-galli

Green Bristle Grass 2 Setaria viridis

mat sandbur 3 Cenchrus longispinus

Switchgrass 4 Panicum virgatum

little bluestem 5 Schizachyrium scoparium

Big Bluestem 6 Andropogon gerardii