Tag Archive: flowers

Plant Profile #3 – Strawberry Goosefoot

As Blue Valley Ranch stepped up its pine beetle mitigation program back in 2005, ranch staff began to see a...

Plant Profile #2 – Dark Throat Shooting Star

Few flowers in the Colorado Mountains are as instantly recognizable as shooting stars (Dodecatheon pulchellum (Raf.) Merr.), with the swept-back...

Plant Profile #1 – Simpson Hedgehog Cactus

Pediocactus simpsonii  is an early blooming member of the cactus family (Cactacae), usually showing flowers from early May to June. ...

Spring Flowers

Pasque flowers (Anemone patens, also Pulsatilla patens) are always the first to come up every year, and their fuzzy stems...