Denver-Boulder Metro Area: Pink, Purple, Blue, Red, and Orange Flowers

This guide contains pink, purple, blue, red, and orange flowers that can be found in the Denver-Boulder Metro Area, including Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas, and Jefferson Counties.

Silverleaf phacelia ¹
Phacelia hastata

Silky Phacelia ²
Phacelia sericea

forget-me-not ³
Eritrichium nanum

Many-flowered stickseed ⁴
Hackelia floribunda

Hound's-tongue ⁵
Cynoglossum officinale

mountain bluebells ⁶
Mertensia ciliata

Prairie Bluebells ⁷
Mertensia lanceolata

crossflower ⁸
Chorispora tenella

western wallflower ⁹
Erysimum capitatum

dame's-violet ¹⁰
Hesperis matronalis

Rocky Mountain beeplant ¹¹
Peritoma serrulata

James’s saxifrage ¹²
Telesonix jamesii

western roseroot ¹³
Rhodiola integrifolia

Queen's Crown ¹⁴
Rhodiola rhodantha

Fairy-slipper ¹⁵
Calypso bulbosa

spotted coralroot ¹⁶
Corallorhiza maculata

western blue flag ¹⁷
Iris missouriensis

Strict Blue-eyed Grass ¹⁸
Sisyrinchium montanum

nodding onion ¹⁹
Allium cernuum

Geyer's onion ²⁰
Allium geyeri

Wood Lily ²¹
Lilium philadelphicum

western spiderwort ²²
Tradescantia occidentalis

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Denver-Boulder Metro Area: Pink, Purple, Blue, Red, and Orange Flowers

Silverleaf phacelia 1 Phacelia hastata

Silky Phacelia 2 Phacelia sericea

forget-me-not 3 Eritrichium nanum

Many-flowered stickseed 4 Hackelia floribunda

Hound's-tongue 5 Cynoglossum officinale

mountain bluebells 6 Mertensia ciliata

Prairie Bluebells 7 Mertensia lanceolata

crossflower 8 Chorispora tenella

western wallflower 9 Erysimum capitatum

dame's-violet 10 Hesperis matronalis

Rocky Mountain beeplant 11 Peritoma serrulata

James’s saxifrage 12 Telesonix jamesii

western roseroot 13 Rhodiola integrifolia

Queen's Crown 14 Rhodiola rhodantha

Fairy-slipper 15 Calypso bulbosa

spotted coralroot 16 Corallorhiza maculata

western blue flag 17 Iris missouriensis

Strict Blue-eyed Grass 18 Sisyrinchium montanum

nodding onion 19 Allium cernuum

Geyer's onion 20 Allium geyeri

Wood Lily 21 Lilium philadelphicum

western spiderwort 22 Tradescantia occidentalis