The flowers in the Colorado mountains are spectacular. Here is a selection. I am grateful to Jane Hendrix and Marty Richardson for their help in identifcation. Jane Hendrix's web page has a quite complete collection of photos of flowers in Summit County. See <<http://www.picturetrail.com/gallery/view?p=6&uid=22322>>. My favorites in the list below are the third one in the Fairy Slippers section, the first Glacier Lily (by Mike Rogers), the Stemless Goldflower, and the Kluane Poppy.

Fairy Slippers (aka Calypso), Rare Color Variation, Colorado

Glacier Lily

Wooly Actinella, or Stemless Goldflower

Kluane Poppy

Alpine Dusty Maiden (Chaenactis alpina)

Yellow Buckwheat

Forget-Me-Nots

Grays Peak Sky Pilot

Alpine Primrose

Parry's Primrose

Sugar Bowl

Shooting Star

Big-Rooted Spring Beauty

Clustered Lady Slippers

Red Columbine

White Columbine

Old Man of the Mountains

Purple Fringe

Wild Blue Flax

Sego Lilies (aka Mariposa)

Bigelow's Groundsel (Senecio Bigelovii, sometimes known as Ligularia pudica)

Monkshood

Drummond Rock Cress

Alpine Senecio (Senecio Soldanella)

Bristlecone Pines

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