Jun 7, 2026
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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
20
Species
162
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.
Jun 5, 2026
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May 28, 2026
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May 27, 2026
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May 26, 2026
Main Avenue Historic Districti
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May 21, 2026
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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
14 snaps
western blue flag
13 snaps
fireweed
12 snaps
Plains Pricklypear
9 snaps
common juniper
9 snaps
Places to Start
Best places for flowers in Colorado
These place guides connect well with the flowers covered in this region.
Park47 sightings50 species
Colorado, US
Dinosaur Ridge
You might spot Common Starlily and Wholeleaf Paintbrush.
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Park45 sightings50 species
Colorado, US
Independence
You might spot Rocky Mountain Marsh-Marigold and American Bistort.
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Park40 sightings50 species
Colorado, US
Colorado National Monument Visitor Center Complex
You might spot Common Side-Blotched Lizard and Eastern Collared Lizard.
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Park48 sightings50 species
Colorado, US
Telluride Historic District
You might spot Black-Billed Magpie and Twinberry Honeysuckle.
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Park35 sightings50 species
Colorado, US
William Allen White Cabins
You might spot Elk, Mule Deer, and Black-Billed Magpie.
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Park30 sightings12 species
Colorado, US
Cripple Creek Historic District
You might spot Great Basin Bristlecone Pine and Mule Deer.
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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
western blue flag
fireweed
Plains Pricklypear
common juniper
musk thistle
Lanceleaf Stonecrop
Scarlet Globemallow
western roseroot
Kingcup Cactus
Virginia strawberry
blue columbine
monument plant
showy milkweed
Utah Juniper
Yarrow
bearberry
prairie pasqueflower
scentless mayweed
Blue Spruce
Desert Prince's Plume
Douglas Fir
Scarlet Gilia
Yellow Sweetclover
common dandelion
field bindweed
fringed sagebrush
prairie smoke
twinberry honeysuckle
white bog orchid
Fairy-slipper
Goatsbeard
Greasewood
Gunnison's Mariposa Lily
Red Osier Dogwood
Rocky Mountain Juniper
Rocky Mountain Marsh-Marigold
Rubber Rabbitbrush
Utah Serviceberry
chokecherry
common cowparsnip
common toadflax
creeping mahonia
dark-throated shooting star
red-berried elder
star-flowered lily-of-the-valley
subalpine fir
tree-of-heaven
upland larkspur
wild sarsaparilla
Alpine Sunflower
American Bistort
Banana Yucca
Canadian buffalo-berry
Colorado Four o'Clock
Cornflower
Elephant's-Head lousewort
Foxtail Barley
Gambel Oak
Grassland Pricklypear
Green-flower Hedgehog Cactus
Moss Campion
Rocky Mountain maple
Tall Blacktip Ragwort
dame's rocket
field penny-cress
fragrant evening primrose
great blanketflower
great mullein
one-sided wintergreen
pinewoods geranium
poison hemlock
purple crownvetch
shepherd's-purse
shrubby cinquefoils
thimbleberry
tree cholla
upright prairie coneflower
western harebell
white clover
Alsike clover
American vetch
Androsace septentrionalis
Antelope Bitterbrush
Big Sagebrush
Bigbract Verbena
Borage
Bracted Lousewort
Brittle Pricklypear
Broad-winged Thistle
Broom Snakeweed
Chickpea Milkvetch
Clover
Colorado Pinyon
Common Cottongrass
Common Lambsquarters
Common Purslane
Crested Wheatgrass
Garden Lady's-mantle
Greater celandine
Green Ephedra
Hookedspur Violet
Lambert's Locoweed
Mountain Ball Cactus
One-flowered Wintergreen
One-seed Juniper
Oregon grape
Pale Alpine Forget-Me-Not
Pinkladies
Pretty Jacob's-ladder
Queen'S Crown
Raspberry Bush
Redstem Stork's-bill
Rocky Mountain Beeplant
Russian olive
Sawsepal Beardtongue
Scarlet Beeblossom
Shadscale Saltbush
Siberian elm
Silky Phacelia
Snowbrush Ceanothus
Solomon's plume
Star Moss
Trumpet Vine
Twinflower
Virginia creeper
Western Paintbrush
Western Rattlesnake Plantain
Western Red Columbine
Western Spiderwort
Whiproot Clover
White Globeflower
Wholeleaf Paintbrush
Woods' rose
Woolly Locoweed
Wyoming Paintbrush
box elder
brittle bladderfern
common lilac
creeping thistle
cutleaf coneflower
cypress spurge
dwarf mallow
flowery phlox
golden currant
mock strawberry
narrowleaf puccoon
nodding onion
pearly everlasting
pipsissewa
prairie dock
red baneberry
ribwort plantain
slender stinging nettle
sulfur buckwheat
tansy
water hemlock
wavyleaf thistle
wax currant
white campion
white fir
wild bergamot
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