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.

Bladder-senna ¹
Colutea arborescens

false indigo ²
Amorpha fruticosa

Fragrant Indigobush ³
Amorpha nana

Siberian peashrub ⁴
Caragana arborescens

Dwarf Peashrub ⁵
Caragana aurantiaca

New Mexico locust ⁶
Robinia neomexicana

black locust ⁷
Robinia pseudoacacia

Edited by Colorado Parks and Wildlife, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

Photo Credits

1. (c) Radio Tonreg, some rights reserved (CC BY)
2. (c) Susan Elliott, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Susan Elliott
3. (c) Colin Murray, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Colin Murray
4. (c) Kingsbrae Garden, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
5. (c) Mountain Partnership at FAO, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
6. (c) Sepehr Ehsani, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND)
7. (c) TCDavis, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND)

Denver-Boulder Metro Area: Plants

Bladder-senna 1 Colutea arborescens

false indigo 2 Amorpha fruticosa

Fragrant Indigobush 3 Amorpha nana

Siberian peashrub 4 Caragana arborescens

Dwarf Peashrub 5 Caragana aurantiaca

New Mexico locust 6 Robinia neomexicana

black locust 7 Robinia pseudoacacia