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.

Greene's mountain ash ¹
Sorbus scopulina

Saskatoon ²
Amelanchier alnifolia

fireberry hawthorn ³
Crataegus chrysocarpa

Cerro hawthorn ⁴
Crataegus erythropoda

American Plum ⁵
Prunus americana

fire cherry ⁶
Prunus pensylvanica

sand cherry ⁷
Prunus pumila

choke cherry ⁸
Prunus virginiana

mountain ninebark ⁹
Physocarpus monogynus

Ocean spray ¹⁰
Holodiscus discolor

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Denver-Boulder Metro Area: Plants

Greene's mountain ash 1 Sorbus scopulina

Saskatoon 2 Amelanchier alnifolia

fireberry hawthorn 3 Crataegus chrysocarpa

Cerro hawthorn 4 Crataegus erythropoda

American Plum 5 Prunus americana

fire cherry 6 Prunus pensylvanica

sand cherry 7 Prunus pumila

choke cherry 8 Prunus virginiana

mountain ninebark 9 Physocarpus monogynus

Ocean spray 10 Holodiscus discolor