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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.

shrubby cinquefoil 1
Dasiphora fruticosa
Apache plume 2
Fallugia paradoxa
Rocky Mountain raspberry 3
Rubus deliciosus
Thimbleberry 4
Rubus parviflorus
dwarf raspberry 5
Rubus pubescens
American red raspberry 6
Rubus idaeus strigosus
prairie rose 7
Rosa arkansana
smooth rose 8
Rosa blanda
Prickly Rose 9
Rosa acicularis sayi
alder-leaved mountain-mahogany 10
Cercocarpus montanus
antelope brush 11
Purshia tridentata
Greene's mountain ash 12
Sorbus scopulina
Saskatoon 13
Amelanchier alnifolia
fireberry hawthorn 14
Crataegus chrysocarpa
Cerro hawthorn 15
Crataegus erythropoda
American Plum 16
Prunus americana
fire cherry 17
Prunus pensylvanica
sand cherry 18
Prunus pumila
choke cherry 19
Prunus virginiana
mountain ninebark 20
Physocarpus monogynus
Ocean spray 21
Holodiscus discolor
Fendler's ceanothus 22
Ceanothus fendleri
New Jersey tea 10
Ceanothus herbaceus
common buckthorn 23
Rhamnus cathartica
Siberian elm 11
Ulmus pumila
common hop 24
Humulus lupulus
netleaf hackberry 25
Celtis reticulata
Russian olive 17
Elaeagnus angustifolia
Canadian buffalo-berry 26
Shepherdia canadensis

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