More blooms!
Vase Flower, aka Sugar Bowl and Leather Flower

Here they are ensemble.

And shown in their natural growing habitat.

Prairie Smoke, aka Purple Avens and Old Man’s Whiskers. I have always called it Pink Plume.

Groundsel with friend.

Unidentified pygmy-style daisies that grow close to the ground in the decomposed granite.

Western Paintbrush

Pygmy Bitterroot (These are teeny tiny!)

Lupine

Baneberry

Monument Plant aka Green Gentian, Deer’s Ears
Up close

and sharing space with a whole lot of Yellow Banner aka Yellow Pea

Shooting Star

Orchid Beardtongue aka One-sided Penstemon, Sidebells Penstemon, Purple Beardtongue

And what collection of flower images would be complete without the flower that everyone associates with Colorado:
The Columbine (always blooming near its soul mate, the aspen)


Posted by Rick on 06/25/2008 at 01:40 PM
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