Posted by: Sandy Steinman | June 7, 2011
Best Colorado Wildflower Websites And Books
Everything You Need To Know About Colorado Wildflowers: Locations, Hikes, Floras and Field Guides
- Wildflowers in Colorado identification tools
- Wildflower Pictures from Colorado
- photographs and information for over 525 plant species growing east of the Continental Divide in Colorado.
- Plant Lists (statewide, regional and local)
- Plant Keys
- Fieldtrips
- Boreas Pass – Pike National Forest
- Clark Ridge – White River National Forest
- David Canyon Road – Comanche National Grassland
- Embargo Creek – Rio Grande National Forest
- Grand Mesa Visitor Center Wildflower Garden – Grand Mesa National Forest
- Mosca Pass – San Isabel National Forest
- Mt. Goliath – Mt. Evans – Arapaho National Forest
- Pikes Peak – Pike National Forest
- Priests Lake – San Juan National Forest and Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre, and Gunnison (GMUG) National Forests
- Shelf Lake Trail – Pike National Forest
- West Elk Scenic Byway – Gunnison National Forest
Books on Wildflower Hikes
- Colorado’s Best Wildflower Hikes Vol 1: The Front Range Pamela D. Irwin (author)
- Colorado’s Best Wildflower Hikes Vol 2: The High Country Pamela D. Irwin (Author), David Harlan Irwin (Photographer)
- Colorado’s Best Wildflower Hikes: VOL 3 The San Juans (Colorado’s Best Wildflower Hikes) Pamela D. Irwin (Author), David Irwin (Photographer)
- Colorado’s Newest and Best Wildflower Hikes: Boulder, Breckenridge, Colorado Springs, Denver, Fort Collins, Rocky Mountain National Park, Vail Pamela Irwin (Author), David Irwin (Photographer)
Field Guides and Flora of Colorado Wildflowers (books and websites)
- Colorado Flora: Eastern & Western Slopes William A. Weber (Author), Ronald C. Whittmann (Author)
- Rocky Mountain Flora James Ells (author)
- Guide to Colorado Wildflowers, Volume 1, Plains and Foothills G.K. Guennel (author)
- Guide to Colorado Wildflowers, Volume 2, Mountains G.K. Guennel (author)
- The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Wildflowers, Western Region Richard Spellenberg (author)
- Northern Colorado Plants: A Field Guide to the Flora of the Northern Front Range Urban Corridor Alix Gadd (author)
- Wild About Wildflowers: Extreme Botanizing in Crested Butte, Wildflower Capitol of Colorado Kathleen Darrow (author)
- Flora of the San Juans: A field Guide to the Mountain Plants of Southwestern Colorado Susan Komarek (author)
- A Guide to Colorado’s Best Photography Locations Andy Cook and Shar Scofield (authors) (guide to wildflower, fall foliage and landscape photographic locations)
- Southwest Colorado Wildflowers, Ferns and Trees: http://www.swcoloradowildflowers.com/index.htm#top
- Eastern Colorado Wildflowers: http://www.easterncoloradowildflowers.com/
- Colorado State University Herbarium Database: http://herbarium.biology.colostate.edu
Articles on Wildflower Viewing In Colorado
- Alpine Loop Scenic Byway
- Rabbit Valley Recreation Area
- Cathy Fromme Prairie
- Willow Creek Trail – Roxborough State Park
- Golden Gate Canyon State Park
- Crested Butte Wildflower Festival
- Hessie Trail
suggestions and additions welcome
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https://www.swcoloradowildflowers.com/ has 5,000 photographs of 1,000 species of plants of Colorado and nearby states. Detailed species descriptions, glossary, biographies of naturalists, range maps for each species, etc. Online since 2001 and supported by the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory.
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By: Al Schneider on May 7, 2021
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Thanks I have added it to the Colorado Wildflower page
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By: Sandy Steinman on May 7, 2021
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The website
http://www.fredswildflowers.com
organizes pictures of hundreds of wildflowers in several ways: by common name, genus, family, color and location.
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By: Fred Johnson on December 4, 2014
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The web site http://www.easterncoloradowildflowers.com has photos and information for over 550 Colorado wildflower species east of continental divide. This includes alpine to plains.
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By: Ernie Marx on February 21, 2012
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