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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

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