Bright yellow flowers and green foliage
Euthamia occidentalis, our Western Goldenrod, blooming at Two Creek Open Space #nativeplants
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Bright yellow flowers and green foliage
Euthamia occidentalis, our Western Goldenrod, blooming at Two Creek Open Space #nativeplants
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Pinkish purple flowers in an inflorescence
Stachys pilosa, our Prairie Woundwart, blooming south of Boulder in a ditch #nativeplants
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Yellow five-petal flowers and red buds
Hypericum majus, our uncommon Greater St. John's-Wort, blooming east of East Boulder Rec. Center #nativeplants
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White fruits in a globose cluster
Picradeniopsis multiflora, our Many-flowered Bahia, fruiting in Phantom Canyon #nativeplants
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Orange and black beetles on bright yellow goldenrod
Goldenrod (Solidago) blooming near Ramah SWA with Colorado Soldier Beetles (Chauliognathus basalis) #nativeplants
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White star-shaped flower with five lobes, an unopened bud rises beside it
Lomatogonium rotatum, our uncommon Marsh Felwort, blooming along the South Platte near Garo #nativeplants
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Deep blue four-lobed flower with white throat and white pistil. The lobes are fringed.
Cluster of deep blue fringed flowers with a sheen to their fringed petals
Three blue fringed flowers with white throats
Gentianopsis thermalis, our Rocky Mountain Fringed Gentian, blooming along the South Platte near Garo #nativeplants
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Five-lobed white flower
Four-lobed white flower
Five-lobed white flower
Five-lobed white flower
Lomatogonium rotatum, our uncommon Marsh Felwort, blooming along the South Platte near Garo #nativeplants
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The blooms will continue until the world improves
Purple flowers with long red filaments and light orange anthers
Amorpha canescens, our Lead Plant, blooming at Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refugee #nativeplants
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Amorpha means โwithout formโ since this genusโ flowers have only one petal, unlike most "pea-shaped" flowers, missing the wing and keel petals.
Sky blue flowers with three lobes on the lower lip and two lobes above
Lobelia siphilitica var. ludoviciana, our uncommon Great Blue Lobelia, blooming in a ditch southwest of the Bobolink trailhead #nativeplants
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Hiker on a dirt road next to some sunflowers. Pic courtesy of Sue D.
Lord, I was born a ramblin' man
Tryin' to make some IDs and doin' the best I can
And when it's time for nature
I hope you'll understand
That I was born a ramblin' man
#FallBackFlowers #FallBack to Sep. 5 ๐ฟ
Purple flowers growing on shale, burnt trees in background
Liatris punctata, our native Dotted Blazingstar, blooming at Heil Valley Ranch Open Space in the area burned by the October 2020 Calwood Fire #nativeplants
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Deep blue five-lobed flowers with black-dotted throats
Gentiana parryi, our Parry's Gentian, blooming above the East Portal #nativeplants
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Sky blue flowers with three lobes in one side and two on the other, with a pistil sticking out between the lips
Lobelia siphilitica var. ludoviciana, our uncommon Great Blue Lobelia, blooming in a ditch southwest of the Bobolink trailhead #nativeplants
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"...once considered a cure for syphilis by early European settlers..." They must've been disappointed I'm guessing.
Bright yellow rayless flower with dark green spiny leaves
Carthamus tinctorius, the nonnative Safflower, blooming in Monarch Park
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Deep blue five-lobed flower with black dots in its throat
Gentiana parryi, our Parry's Gentian, blooming at Urad Lake #nativeplants
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Large white flower with numerous creamy yellow stamens blooming at dusk
Mentzelia decapetala, our Ten-petal Blazingstar, blooming at Neva Road #nativeplants
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These open at dusk and are pollinated by night-flying moths. One might then speculate the flowers have a significant sweet scent so the moths can find them. They do!
The bulbous, mouth-shaped flowers of Chelone glabra (white turtlehead)
#FallbackFlowers to September 3, 2021, Lane Conservation Area, Lunenburg, MA.
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Honey bee pollinating yellow rayless flowers
Ericameria nauseosa, our Rubber Rabbitbrush, blooming with bee north of Longmont #nativeplants
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Yellow sunflower
Helianthus nuttallii, our Nuttall's Sunflower, blooming off Baseline Road #nativeplants
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Four-lobed blue flower with fringed edges
Gentianopsis barbellata, our uncommon Perennial Fringed Gentian, blooming at Guanella Pass #nativeplants
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Blue five-lobed flowers with pollinators
Many flowers attract pollinators like these ants and a wasp or fly on this Gentiana parryi, our Parry's Gentian, at Guanella Pass #nativeplants
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Spike of fuzzy light blue flowers
Salvia azurea var. grandiflora, our uncommon Blue Sage, blooming at Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge #nativeplants
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Globose cluster of white flowers with exserted stamens
Cleomella serrulata, our Rocky Mountain Beeplant, blooming at Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge #nativeplants
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Cluster of yellow rayless flowers
Pericome caudata, our Mountain Tail-Leat, blooming at Woods Quarry #nativeplants
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Narrow green leaves floating atop a mountain lake
Sparganium angustifolium, our Narrow-leaved Bur-reed, floating atop Rainbow Lakes #nativeplants
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"The virtues of Sparganium:
The roote is good to be geven wyth wyne agaynste the poyson of serpentes." - William Turner (1562)
Bee pollinating white aster
Bee pollinating white aster
Cnemidandrena bee atop Almutatster pauciflorus, our Few-flowered Aster, blooming along Spring Creek #nativeplants
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Four-lobed fringed blue flower with creamy stigma
Our Rocky Mountain Fringed Gentian, Gentianopsis thermalis, blooming along Spring Creek in South Park #nativeplants
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White wood aster (Eurybia divaricata). A cluster of composite flowers, each with white ray florets and yellow disk florets.
#FallbackFlowers to August 26, 2020 in Lunenburg, MA.
Spike of pink flowers with exserted anthers
Persicaria amphibia, our Water Smartweed, blooming in Standley Lake #nativeplants
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