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Plants of Highline Lake State Park

Highline Lake State Park lies within the Grand Valley of western Colorado at the eastern edge of the Great Basin, about 20 miles west and north of Grand Junction. The park encompasses about 570 acres and consists of Mack Mesa Reservoir and Highline Lake, and lands surrounding these bodies of ...more ↓

Lakeshore Club-rush 1
Schoenoplectus lacustris
Common Three-Square 2
Schoenoplectus pungens
Sea Clubrush 3
Bolboschoenus maritimus
Woolly Sedge 4
Carex lanuginosa
Common Spike-rush 5
Eleocharis palustris
Barnyardgrass 6
Echinochloa crus-galli
Green Bristle Grass 7
Setaria viridis
Mat Sandbur 8
Cenchrus longispinus
Witch Grass 9
Panicum capillare
Redtop 10
Agrostis gigantea
Bluejoint 11
Calamagrostis canadensis
Rabbitfoot Grass 12
Polypogon monspeliensis
Orchard Grass 13
Dactylis glomerata
sixweeks fescue 14
Vulpia octoflora
Tall Fescue 15
Festuca arundinacea
Reed Canarygrass 16
Phalaris arundinacea
Kentucky bluegrass 17
Poa pratensis
Pine bluegrass 17
Poa secunda
Smooth Brome 18
Bromus inermis
Japanese Brome 19
Bromus japonicus
Cheatgrass 1
Bromus tectorum
Western Wheatgrass 20
Pascopyrum smithii
Canada Wild Rye 21
Elymus canadensis
Great Basin Wild Rye 17
Elymus cinereus
Squirreltail 17
Elymus elymoides
Intermediate Wheatgrass 22
Elymus hispidus
Salina Pass Wild Rye 17
Elymus salina
Slender Wheat Grass 23
Elymus trachycaulus
Foxtail Barley 24
Hordeum jubatum
Clustered Wheat Grass 25
Agropyron desertorum
Needle-and-Thread 26
Hesperostipa comata
Indian Ricegrass 27
Achnatherum hymenoides
common reed 12
Phragmites australis
Sand Dropseed 17
Sporobolus cryptandrus
Mesa Dropseed 28
Sporobolus flexuosus
Windmill Grass 21
Chloris verticillata
James' Galleta 29
Hilaria jamesii
Salt Grass 30
Distichlis spicata
Scratch Grass 22
Muhlenbergia asperifolia
Mat Muhly 17
Muhlenbergia richardsonis
broadleaf cattail 31
Typha latifolia
Arctic Rush 32
Juncus arcticus
Torrey's Rush 33
Juncus torreyi
Wild Asparagus 34
Asparagus officinalis
Sego Lily 35
Calochortus nuttallii
Longleaf Pondweed 36
Potamogeton nodosus

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