Common wildflowers of the southern Colorado foothills that bloom from mid-March through early May.

Spring beauty (Claytonia rosea) blooms between April's snowstorms, the first reliable wildflower of the seasons. Remarkably, it colonizes bare soil sometimes too.

Pasque flower (Pulsatilia patens hirsutissima), which some people call "wild crocus," also blooms amid spring blizzards.

They're here, they're everywhere, they're edible, so why keep calling them "weeds"? I spent too much time as a kid spraying nasty pesticides such as 2,4-D on dandelions at my parents' request. No more!

Sand lilly (Leucocrinum montanum), photographed to show its long, slender leaves, which normally are camouflaged by the grasses.

Wild plum (Prunus americana) . "There are plums like those of Castille . . ." wrote Pedro de Castañeda, chronicler of the expedition led by Francisco Vásquez de Coronado through the American Southwest (1540-1542). (NO PHOTO YET)

May Wildflowers
June-July Wildflowers (under construction)
August-September Wildflowers (under construction)

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last updated 5 June 1998