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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.

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

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