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Flowers Guide
Flowers Guide for Colorado
Mountains, alpine trails, wildlife, and wildflower summers
Flower highlights, bloom-focused sightings, and the best places to look for flowers in Colorado. Use the highlight list to start quickly, then work through the full guide for a broader local view.
Sightings
291
Species
128
Active Months
12
Category Overview
Flowers across Colorado
This guide focuses on flowers within Colorado's wider region guide, with bloom-rich sightings and the places where wildflowers help define the landscape through the seasons.
Latest Sightings
Recent flower sightings in Colorado
A recent look at flower sightings across Colorado.
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Sightings Map
See where flower sightings cluster
Start wide, then zoom in to see where flower sightings cluster across Colorado.
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Top Highlights
Top 5 flowers to look for in Colorado
These flowers are snapped the most across this region.
Western Wallflower
13 snaps
fireweed
11 snaps
western blue flag
11 snaps
common juniper
8 snaps
musk thistle
8 snaps
Places to Start
Best places for flowers in Colorado
These place guides connect well with the flowers covered in this region.
Park30 sightings12 species
Colorado, US
Cripple Creek Historic District
You might spot Great Basin Bristlecone Pine and Mule Deer.
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Park29 sightings12 species
Colorado, US
Independence
You might spot American Bistort and Rocky Mountain Marsh-Marigold.
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Park30 sightings12 species
Colorado, US
Dinosaur Ridge
You might spot Common Starlily and Wholeleaf Paintbrush.
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Park30 sightings12 species
Colorado, US
Old Colorado City
You might spot Mule Deer, Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay, and Black-Billed Magpie.
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Park30 sightings12 species
Colorado, US
Redstone Coke Oven Historic District
You might spot Red Osier Dogwood and Creeping Mahonia.
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Park30 sightings12 species
Colorado, US
Saddlehorn Utility Area Historic District
You might spot Common Side-Blotched Lizard and Eastern Collared Lizard.
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Full Guide
Full Colorado flowers list
The complete ranked list for this guide, ordered by sightings count.
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Western Wallflower
fireweed
western blue flag
common juniper
musk thistle
Lanceleaf Stonecrop
Scarlet Globemallow
Virginia strawberry
blue columbine
western roseroot
Plains Pricklypear
bearberry
prairie pasqueflower
scentless mayweed
Blue Spruce
Douglas Fir
Kingcup Cactus
Yarrow
Yellow Sweetclover
fringed sagebrush
twinberry honeysuckle
white bog orchid
Desert Prince's Plume
Goatsbeard
Red Osier Dogwood
Rocky Mountain Juniper
Rubber Rabbitbrush
Scarlet Gilia
Utah Serviceberry
common dandelion
common toadflax
prairie smoke
red-berried elder
showy milkweed
star-flowered lily-of-the-valley
tree-of-heaven
upland larkspur
wild sarsaparilla
Banana Yucca
Canadian buffalo-berry
Colorado Four o'Clock
Gambel Oak
Greasewood
Green-flower Hedgehog Cactus
Moss Campion
Utah Juniper
chokecherry
common cowparsnip
creeping mahonia
dark-throated shooting star
field penny-cress
great mullein
monument plant
one-sided wintergreen
pinewoods geranium
poison hemlock
shepherd's-purse
shrubby cinquefoils
thimbleberry
western harebell
white clover
Alsike clover
American vetch
Androsace septentrionalis
Antelope Bitterbrush
Bigbract Verbena
Borage
Bracted Lousewort
Brittle Pricklypear
Broad-winged Thistle
Clover
Common Cottongrass
Common Lambsquarters
Common Purslane
Cornflower
Elephant's-Head lousewort
Fairy-slipper
Foxtail Barley
Garden Lady's-mantle
Greater celandine
Gunnison's Mariposa Lily
Lambert's Locoweed
One-flowered Wintergreen
One-seed Juniper
Pinkladies
Pretty Jacob's-ladder
Raspberry Bush
Redstem Stork's-bill
Rocky Mountain maple
Sawsepal Beardtongue
Scarlet Beeblossom
Snowbrush Ceanothus
Solomon's plume
Star Moss
Twinflower
Virginia creeper
Western Rattlesnake Plantain
White Globeflower
Wholeleaf Paintbrush
Woods' rose
Woolly Locoweed
box elder
brittle bladderfern
creeping thistle
cutleaf coneflower
cypress spurge
dame's rocket
dwarf mallow
field bindweed
flowery phlox
fragrant evening primrose
golden currant
mock strawberry
narrowleaf puccoon
nodding onion
pearly everlasting
pipsissewa
prairie dock
purple crownvetch
red baneberry
ribwort plantain
slender stinging nettle
subalpine fir
sulfur buckwheat
tansy
wax currant
white campion
white fir
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