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By Alan Silverstein, ajs@frii.com (page updated Sun Dec 25 15:47:26 MST 2022)

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This is a collection of wildflower snapshots taken "when convenient" up at Cathie's mountain cabin (10,100'), at the north end of South Park, Colorado. Identifications were provided in many cases by Rob Pickett (thanks), with direct text from him in quotes in accompanying individual pictures.

I started taking these pictures on a whim in 2020, thinking it would be easy to identify "the few species that we have up there" -- wrong -- there are at least 17 different species already included here (Aug 2021), possibly up to 21 if I can later distinguish some of the similar yellow ones.

For lack of a better idea, I named and arranged the photo files by dates they were taken (independent of the year), at least the first picture for each species, so they are roughly in order of flowering dates, and then by color (blue, red, white, purple, yellow).

I intend to update these files if/as I take better photos or get more information about any species. Meanwhile, you can learn a lot more about any of them by web searching for their species or common names.

Honorable mention, two flowers I was shown by a neighbor on the next lot to the east, that don't seem to exist on our lot (remarkably different microclimates): Prairie smoke and Mariposa lilly (perhaps Calochortus gunnisonii?)

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