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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.

western lady fern 1
Athyrium filix-femina cyclosorum
Alpine Lady-fern 2
Athyrium distentifolium
American Alpine Lady Fern 3
Athyrium distentifolium americanum
northern oak fern 4
Gymnocarpium dryopteris
black spleenwort 5
Asplenium adiantum-nigrum
Brittle bladderfern 6
Cystopteris fragilis
lady fern 7
Athyrium filix-femina
northern spleenwort 8
Asplenium septentrionale
maidenhair spleenwort 9
Asplenium trichomanes trichomanes
Oregon woodsia 10
Woodsia oregana
Rocky Mountain woodsia 11
Woodsia scopulina

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  • 1. (c) Neil Gilham, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Neil Gilham
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  • 11. (c) 2006 Steve Matson, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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