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Colorado Columbine
An appreciation for wildflowers can carry with it an awareness and understanding for the seasons, insect and bird life, habitat, and other related factors. The lists that follow give the more commonly observed wildflowers, colors, scientific names, habitat and seasonal variables, and other helpful information.
Sources include William A. Weber/s “Rocky Mountain Flora,” 5th edition, 1976, Colorado Associated University Press, Boulder, Colorado, and W.A. Weber and Ruth Ashton Nelson, “Plants of Rocky Mountain National Park,” 1970, Rocky Mountain Nature Association.