C O L O R A D O PA R K S & W I L D L I F E
❑ Brittlefern
Discovering
Plants
❑ Field Horsetail
❑ Smooth Horsetail
MOSS
❑ Little Club-moss
AT ELEVEN MILE STATE PARK
SUCCULENTS
❑ Ball Cactus
❑ Prickly Pear Cactus
GLOSSARY OF TERMS
Prickly Pear Cactus
HELPFUL HINTS
1. Bring your eye to the plant, never bring the plant
to your eye. Picking wildflowers is prohibited on
public lands, and for
good reason. Millions visit these lands
and if everyone took home a bouquet,
many species would disappear from the park
forever.
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❑ Blue Penstemon
❑ Fendler’s False Arabis
❑ Field Sagewort
❑ Mapleleaf Goosefoot
❑ Machaeranthera
❑ Meadow Thistle
❑ Miner’s Candle
❑ Narrowleaf Goosefoot
Flower – the reproductive structure of
many plants
❑ Pinnate Tansymustard
Forb – A broad- leaved, non-woody plant
that dies back to the ground after each
growing season
❑ Rocky Mountain Beeplant
Grass – an annual or perennial herb with a
round, hollow stem
❑ Spreading Fleabane (daisy)
Herb – a narrow-leaved, non-woody plant.
❑ Winged Buckwheat
Perennial – A plant that lives at least three years,
usually flowering and producing fruit each year
Eleven Mile State Park
❑ Bigelow Aster
Biennial – A plant that lives two years, usually
flowering and producing fruit in the 2nd year
Moss – a non-vascular plant; able to dry up and
then begin photosynthesis again immediately
upon getting water
3. Take along a camera to photograph species that you
can’t easily ID in the field.
❑ American Chamaerhodos
❑ Glasswort
Lichen – a composite of an alga and a fungus
2. A field guide to plants will be helpful, as this is
merely a checklist.
NATIVE ANNUAL & BIENNIAL FORBS
Annual – A plant that lives one year
Fern – an ancient, vascular plant that reproduces
by spores
LICHENS
❑ Lichen
This list is intended to represent the most
commonly found plants at Eleven Mile and
Spinney Mountain State Parks. Let us know if
you find species not listed here.
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❑ Pygmyflower Rockjasmine
❑ Roundfruit Yellowcress
❑ Seablight
❑ Whitlowwort
❑ Yellow Sweetclover
Spreading Fleabane
INTRODUCED ANNUAL &
BIENNIAL FORBS
❑ Burning-bush
❑ Denseflower Pepperweed
❑ Early Stickseed
❑ Field Pennycress
Shrub – A perennial broad- leaved, woody plant,
typically multi-stemmed and less than 15 feet tall
❑ Flixweed Tansymustard
Succulent – a plant with fleshy, water-storing
stems or leaves
❑ Ironweed
Tree – a perennial woody plant with a single
stem (trunk), generally at least 15 feet tall
❑ Mexican Tea
❑ Horseweed
❑ Lady’s Thumb Smartweed
❑ Russian Thistle
❑ Thyme-leaved Spurge
❑ Wormseed
Wallflower
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❑ Littleflower Alumroot
❑ Tansy Aster
❑ Plains Bluegrass
❑ Alkali Aster
❑ Marsh Felwort
❑ Wallflower
❑ Purple Reedgrass
❑ Arrowgrass
❑ Meadow hawksbeard
❑ Western Yarrow
❑ Saltgrass
❑ Beard-tongue
❑ Meadow Lousewort
❑ Wild Buckwheat
❑ Bessey’s Stickseed
❑ Microseris
❑ Wild Tarragon
❑ Bigelow bottle Gentian
❑ Milkvetch (locoweed)
❑ Wildspikenard False Solomon’s Seal
❑ Slimstem Muhly
❑ Bladderpod
❑ Moss Campion
❑ Blue Flax
❑ Mount Elbert Goldenrod
INTRODUCED PERENNIAL FORBS
❑ Sun Sedge
❑ Bodin Milkvetch
❑ Mountain Strawberry
❑ Branched Blue-eyed Grass
❑ Nodding Onion
❑ Parry Bellflower
❑ Colorado Rubberweed
❑ Pasqueflower
❑ Common Mare’s tail
❑ Pasture Sage
❑ Creeping Nailwort
❑ Plains Indian Paintbrush
❑ Desert Sandwort
❑ Platte River Milkvetch
❑ Diamond Milkvetch
❑ Pretty Draba
❑ Drummond Campion
❑ Prickly Gilia
❑ Dwarf Columbine
❑ Pussytoes
❑ Englemann Fleabane
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❑ Rocky Mountain Iris
❑ Fendler’s Ragwort
❑ Scarlet Gilia
❑ Fieldmint
❑ Sea Milkwort
❑ Fringed Sage
❑ Sheep Cinquefoil
❑ Golden Smoke
❑ Shore Buttercup
❑ Groundsel
❑ Showy Fleabane
❑ Gumweed Aster
❑ Silky Locoweed
❑ Hairy Golden Aster
❑ Silver Thistle
❑ Harebell
❑ Silverweed
❑ Hooded Ladies’ Tresses
❑ Siskiyou Aster
❑ Horse Cinquefoil
❑ Skeletonweed
❑ Kitten-tail
❑ Slenderfoot Willowherb
❑ Lanceleaf Bluebells
❑ Small-leaf Geranium
❑ Large-leaved Avens
❑ Spotted Saxifrage
❑ Laxmann’s Milkvetch
❑ Little Gentian
Lanceleaf Bluebells
❑ Perennial Sow-thistle
NATIVE SHRUBS
❑ Birchleaf Mountain Mahogany
False Buffalograss
❑ Douglas Rabbitbrush
NATIVE PERENNIAL GRASSES
❑ Gooseberry Currant
❑ Horsebrush
❑ Kinnickkinnick
❑ Rubber Rabbitbrush
❑ Alkali Sacaton
❑ Sand Bar Willow
❑ Arizona Fescue
❑ Shrubby Cinquefoil
❑ Baltic Rush
❑ Spanish Bayonet
❑ Beaked Sedge
❑ Trumpet Gooseberry
❑ Blackcreeper Sedge
❑ Wax Currant
❑ Bottlebrush Squirrel Tail
❑ Winterfat
❑ Elk Sedge
❑ Wood’s Rose
❑ Foxtail Sedge
❑ Junegrass
NATIVE TREES
❑ Mat Muhly
❑ Douglas-fir
❑ Montana Wheatgrass
❑ Engelmann Spruce
❑ Mountain Muhly
❑ Mutton Bluegrass
❑ Needle-and-thread Grass
❑ Northern Reedgrass
❑ Parry’s Oatgrass
❑ Pine Dropseed
American Red Raspberry
❑ Viscid Rabbitbrush
❑ Blue Grama Grass
Sunbright
❑ Common Juniper
❑ False Buffalograss
❑ Alkali Cordgrass
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❑ American Red Raspberry
❑ Agassiz Bluegrass
❑ Spurge
❑ Sunbright
❑ Snakeweed
❑ Annual Muhly
❑ Richardson’s Geranium
❑ False Dandelion
❑ Common Plantain
NATIVE ANNUAL GRASSES
❑ Redwool Plantain
Slender
❑ Tufted Hairgrass
NATIVE SUBSHRUBS
❑ Swamp Sow-thistle
Plains Indian
Paintbrush
❑ Slender Wheatgrass
❑ Common Dandelion
Blue Grama Grass
❑ Ciliate Willowherb
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❑ Pale Evening Primrose
❑ Scribner Needlegrass
❑ Western Wheatgrass
❑ Canada Thistle
❑ Oreocarya
Blue Flax
❑ Calcareous Cryptantha
❑ Easter daisy
❑ Butter-and-eggs
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❑ Broom groundsel
Western Yarrow
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NATIVE PERENNIAL FORBS
❑ Limber Pine
❑ Ponderosa Pine
❑ Quaking Aspen
INTRODUCED TREES
❑ Willow
Quaking Aspen
