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.

Taxonomy
« Back To Borages Order Boraginales
- Borage Family Family Boraginaceae
  - 5 Subfamily Cynoglossoideae
  - 2 Baby Blue Eyes, Phacelias, and Waterleaves Subfamily Hydrophylloideae

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

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1. (c) Daniel George, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Daniel George
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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