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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

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