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Denver-Boulder Metro Area: Plants

This guide contains mosses, ferns, vines, aquatic plants, cactuses, shrubs, trees, and other plants that can be found in the Denver-Boulder Metro Area, including Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas, and Jefferson Counties.

Grey-cushioned Grimmia 1
Grimmia pulvinata
bristly haircap moss 2
Polytrichum piliferum
juniper haircap moss 3
Polytrichum juniperinum
Bonfire moss 4
Funaria hygrometrica
Broom Forkmoss 5
Dicranum scoparium
Silvery Bryum 6
Bryum argenteum
New Mexican fontinalis moss 7
Fontinalis neomexicana
Ciliate Hoarmoss 8
Hedwigia ciliata
Cypress-leaved Plait-moss 9
Hypnum cupressiforme
Star Moss 10
Syntrichia ruralis
horsetails 11
Equisetum
rough horsetail 12
Equisetum hyemale
common bracken 13
Pteridium aquilinum
western lady fern 14
Athyrium filix-femina cyclosorum
Alpine Lady-fern 15
Athyrium distentifolium
rattlesnake fern 16
Botrypus virginianus
American parsley fern 17
Cryptogramma acrostichoides
northern holly fern 18
Polystichum lonchitis
American Alpine Lady Fern 19
Athyrium distentifolium americanum
northern oak fern 20
Gymnocarpium dryopteris
variegated horsetail 21
Equisetum variegatum
Fendler's false cloak fern 22
Argyrochosma fendleri
black spleenwort 23
Asplenium adiantum-nigrum
Wright's cliffbrake 24
Pellaea wrightiana
Ferriss' horsetail
Equisetum × ferrissii
Fendler's lipfern 25
Myriopteris fendleri
Fee's lip fern 26
Myriopteris gracilis
Spindle 27
Euonymus europaeus
American bittersweet 28
Celastrus scandens
Oriental bittersweet 29
Celastrus orbiculatus
Fringed Grass of Parnassus 30
Parnassia fimbriata
winged euonymus 31
Euonymus alatus
fortune's spindle 32
Euonymus fortunei
Japanese spindle tree 33
Euonymus japonicus
Prickly Pears 34
Opuntia
Plains Pricklypear 35
Opuntia polyacantha
Missouri Foxtail Cactus 36
Escobaria missouriensis
Green-flower Hedgehog Cactus 37
Echinocereus viridiflorus viridiflorus
Missouri Foxtail Cactus 36
Escobaria missouriensis missouriensis
Pediocactus simpsonii minor 38
tree cholla 39
Cylindropuntia imbricata
Cylindropuntia imbricata imbricata 40
Twist-spined Pricklypear 36
Opuntia tortispina
Grassland Pricklypear 41
Opuntia cymochila
Lobivia arachnacantha 42
field horsetail 43
Equisetum arvense
Smooth Horsetail 44
Equisetum laevigatum
Variegated Horsetail 45
Equisetum variegatum variegatum
western scouringrush 46
Equisetum hyemale affine
echo moonwort 47
Botrychium echo
western moonwort 48
Botrychium hesperium
lanceleaf moonwort 49
Botrychium lanceolatum
Mingan moonwort 50
Botrychium minganense
water clover 51
Marsilea vestita
Brittle bladderfern 52
Cystopteris fragilis
lady fern 53
Athyrium filix-femina
Hairy brackenfern 54
Pteridium aquilinum pubescens
northern spleenwort 55
Asplenium septentrionale
maidenhair spleenwort 56
Asplenium trichomanes trichomanes
Oregon woodsia 57
Woodsia oregana
Rocky Mountain woodsia 58
Woodsia scopulina
Male Fern 44
Dryopteris filix-mas
Rocky Mountain Polypody 59
Polypodium saximontanum
Rocky Mountain juniper 60
Juniperus scopulorum
common juniper 61
Juniperus communis
Rocky Mountain bristlecone pine 62
Pinus aristata
Colorado pinyon 63
Pinus edulis
limber pine 64
Pinus flexilis
lodgepole pine 65
Pinus contorta
ponderosa pine 66
Pinus ponderosa
common Douglas-fir 67
Pseudotsuga menziesii
white fir 68
Abies concolor
subalpine fir 69
Abies lasiocarpa
Engelmann spruce 70
Picea engelmannii
blue spruce 71
Picea pungens
coontail 72
Ceratophyllum demersum
honey locust 73
Gleditsia triacanthos
Kentucky coffeetree 74
Gymnocladus dioicus
Bladder-senna 75
Colutea arborescens
false indigo 20
Amorpha fruticosa
Fragrant Indigobush 76
Amorpha nana
Siberian peashrub 77
Caragana arborescens
Dwarf Peashrub 78
Caragana aurantiaca
New Mexico locust 79
Robinia neomexicana
black locust 80
Robinia pseudoacacia
Western Redbud 17
Cercis occidentalis
shrubby cinquefoil 81
Dasiphora fruticosa
Apache plume 82
Fallugia paradoxa
Rocky Mountain raspberry 83
Rubus deliciosus
Thimbleberry 84
Rubus parviflorus
dwarf raspberry 85
Rubus pubescens
American red raspberry 86
Rubus idaeus strigosus
prairie rose 87
Rosa arkansana
smooth rose 16
Rosa blanda
Prickly Rose 88
Rosa acicularis sayi
alder-leaved mountain-mahogany 89
Cercocarpus montanus
antelope brush 44
Purshia tridentata
Greene's mountain ash 90
Sorbus scopulina
Saskatoon 91
Amelanchier alnifolia
fireberry hawthorn 92
Crataegus chrysocarpa

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