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Plants of North Sterling State Park

North Sterling State Park is located on the high plains of northeast Colorado in Logan County, 12 miles north of the town of Sterling and 20 miles south of the Nebraska border. The Pawnee National Grasslands are 20 miles to the west and the Chimney Canyons bluffs are just north of the park. The ...more ↓

green poinsettia 1
Euphorbia dentata
Snow-on-the-mountain 2
Euphorbia marginata
broadleaved pepperweed 3
Lepidium latifolium
Fendler's pennycress 4
Noccaea fendleri
flixweed 5
Descurainia sophia
tumble mustard 6
Sisymbrium altissimum
redwhisker clammyweed 7
Polanisia dodecandra
golden currant 8
Ribes aureum
Lakeshore Club-rush 9
Schoenoplectus lacustris
Common Three-Square 10
Schoenoplectus pungens
Sea clubrush 11
Bolboschoenus maritimus
Common Spike-rush 12
Eleocharis palustris
Sand Reedgrass 13
Calamovilfa longifolia
Barnyardgrass 14
Echinochloa crus-galli
Witch grass 15
Panicum capillare
Switchgrass 16
Panicum virgatum
Little bluestem 17
Schizachyrium scoparium
Big Bluestem 18
Andropogon gerardii
Creeping Bent 18
Agrostis stolonifera
Prairie junegrass 19
Koeleria macrantha
Annual bluegrass 20
Poa annua
Kentucky bluegrass 21
Poa pratensis
Smooth Brome 22
Bromus inermis
Japanese Brome 23
Bromus japonicus
Cheatgrass 9
Bromus tectorum
Intermediate Wheatgrass 24
Thinopyrum intermedium
Western Wheatgrass 25
Pascopyrum smithii
Canada Wild Rye 26
Elymus canadensis
Squirreltail 18
Elymus elymoides
Slender Wheat Grass 14
Elymus trachycaulus
Foxtail Barley 27
Hordeum jubatum
Crested wheatgrass 28
Agropyron cristatum
Needle-and-Thread 29
Hesperostipa comata
Green needlegrass 18
Nassella viridula
Indian Ricegrass 30
Achnatherum hymenoides
foxtail prickle grass 18
Crypsis alopecuroides
Composite Dropseed 31
Sporobolus asper
Purple three-awn 18
Aristida purpurea
Alkali sacaton 32
Sporobolus airoides
Sand dropseed 18
Sporobolus cryptandrus
Teal Lovegrass 33
Eragrostis hypnoides
Jersey Love-grass 15
Eragrostis pilosa
Purple Lovegrass 34
Eragrostis spectabilis
Sand Lovegrass 35
Eragrostis trichodes
Sideoats Grama 36
Bouteloua curtipendula
Buffalograss 26
Bouteloua dactyloides
Blue Grama 37
Bouteloua gracilis
Salt Grass 38
Distichlis spicata
Annual Muhly 39
Muhlenbergia minutissima
Soapweed yucca 40
Yucca glauca
common starlily 41
Leucocrinum montanum

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