Colorado Wildflowers


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A beginner's field guide to the state's most common flowers.




Wildflowers of the Rocky Mountain Region


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for loving where you live. Wildflowers of the Rocky Mountain Region is a comprehensive field guide for anyone wishing to learn about the amazingly diverse wildflowers of the region. Organized by flower color and shape, and including a range map for each flower described, the guide is as user-friendly as it is informative. This must-have book is perfect for hikers, naturalists, and native plant enthusiasts. Covers the entire Rocky Mountain range from Canada south to New Mexico, separated into Northern Rockies, Middle Rockies, and Southern Rockies Describes and illustrates nearly 1,200 commonly encountered species Includes perennials, annuals, biennials, vines, shrubs, and subshrubs, both native and non-native 1,245 superb color photographs and 1,189 range maps User-friendly organization by flower color, shape, and petal count




Meet the Natives


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Author Dan Johnson invites you to meet the nativesùthe native plants of Colorado. This popular guide has long aided enthusiasts in identifying the plants commonly encountered along Rocky Mountain trails and byways. And now Dan Johnson has revised this eleventh edition to make the guide more useful than ever before! Organization of herbaceous flowering plants by color for faster identification Color photos throughout to assist with accurate identification Nearly 100 new entries Common and useful native grasses Identification of exotic imported plants that have become common, and in some cases aggressively invasive Quick-reference chart to help with identification Horticultural information to help you bring these durable and beautiful native plants into your own garden or landscape Book jacket.




Rocky Mountain Flower Finder


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Pocket field guide to wildflowers of the Rockies, from foothills to tree line. As with all our flower guides, the step-by-step key guides you first to the flower family and then to the name of the individual species. Includes information about habitat and range, and a glossary of terms used to describe flowers and leaves. Author's line drawings clearly reveal important features for accurate identification.




Little Dots of Color


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This is less of a traditional flower guide and more of a casual identification book designed for the individual who is taking a pleasant stroll through a mountain meadow. The little dots of color that speckle the hillside can now become familiar acquaintances. But instead of struggling to decide if you are gazing upon a Potentilla pulcherrima or a Potentilla subjuga, you can confidently say it is... some kind of cinquefoil. With a wave of your hand, Aquilegia coerulea easily becomes... a blue columbine. Exploring a wide assortment of flowers that span from the grasslands of the Great Plains up to the rocky tops of the Continental Divide, this book provides simple descriptions and clear photos.




A Field Guide to Rocky Mountain Wildflowers


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This guide describes 590 species, with detailed information on flowering season, related species, range, and habitat. More than 100 plant drawings supplement these descriptions, and more than 200 color photographs show flowers as they appear in the field.







Guide to Colorado Wildflowers: Mountains


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This newly revised second edition contains 35 new wildflower profiles. Together, Volume 1: Plains & Foothills and Volume 2: Mountains catalog nearly 700 Colorado wildflower species. Also, the names and page numbers of crossover species that you might encounter in the mountain life zone, but also grow at lower elevations and are covered fully in Volume 1, now appear at the end of each chapter in a handy reference system.




Wildflowers of Utah's Colorado Plateau


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An essential field guide to wildflowers of the Colorado Plateau in southern Utah. This book contains color photographs with the common and scientific names of 209 plants. Line drawings of 83 of these plants aid in identification.




Central Rocky Mountain Wildflowers


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Field guide features over 260 wildflowers found in the heart of the Rockies. Includes vibrant color photos and descriptions.