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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.

Prickly Pears 1
Opuntia
Plains Pricklypear 2
Opuntia polyacantha
Missouri Foxtail Cactus 3
Escobaria missouriensis
Green-flower Hedgehog Cactus 4
Echinocereus viridiflorus viridiflorus
Missouri Foxtail Cactus 3
Escobaria missouriensis missouriensis
Pediocactus simpsonii minor 5
tree cholla 6
Cylindropuntia imbricata
Cylindropuntia imbricata imbricata 7
Twist-spined Pricklypear 3
Opuntia tortispina
Grassland Pricklypear 8
Opuntia cymochila
Lobivia arachnacantha 9
Nylon Hedgehog Cactus 10
Echinocereus viridiflorus
Simpson's hedgehog cactus 11
Pediocactus simpsonii
viviparous foxtail cactus 12
Escobaria vivipara
brittle prickly-pear 13
Opuntia fragilis
twist spine prickly pear 14
Opuntia macrorhiza
brown-spined prickly-pear 15
Opuntia phaeacantha
starvation prickly-pear 16
Opuntia polyacantha polyacantha
water smartweed 17
Persicaria amphibia
red tamarisk 18
Tamarix ramosissima
fourwing saltbush 19
Atriplex canescens
winterfat 20
Krascheninnikovia lanata
Fivehorn smotherweed 21
Bassia hyssopifolia
Kochia 22
Bassia scoparia
Slender Russian-thistle 23
Salsola collina
tumbleweed 24
Salsola tragus

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