American Plum, Prunus americana

Arapaho: Beesíbino’ (“big berry”); Cheyenne: ma?xemenotse ("big berry”)

flowering season: April - May

Star Lily, Leucocrinum montanum

Cheyenne: vo?omeheseeo?otse (“white medicine”)

flowering season: April - June

Catspaw, Antennaria media

Ute: tim′pǐntsauûv

flowering season: May - August

Prairie Mouse Ear, Cerastium arvens

flowering season: May - July

Each petal is notched into two rounded lobes that resemble the ears of a mouse.

Canadian White Violet, Viola canadensis

Ute: kabamsĭtagwĭv

flowering season: May - August

Trailing Fleabane, Whiplash Daisy, Erigeron flagellaris

Ute: ?sagûmsǐtagwǐv; Cheyenne: a?oma?ohtseheseeo?otse (“pink colored medicine”)

flowering season: March - August

Heracleum sphondylium

flowering season: June - August

Fragaria virginiana

Ute: twes, tuwisi, tuvwisi; Arapaho: Hite:híbino, Hiteehibino ("Heart-shaped berries”); Cheyenne: veeskee’ehemeno’esee

flowering season: April - August

Shop prints of Wild Strawberry (Heart Berry)~ 5×7 * 8×10 * poster print

Shop prints of Wild Strawberry~ 5×7 * 8×10 * poster print

Prunus virginiana

Ute: tée’napi; Arapaho: Bi:no; Cheyenne: menotse (“berries”)

flowering season: May - July

Anaphalis margaritacea

flowering season: June - August

Rocky Mountain Raspberry, Rubus deliciosus

flowering season: June - August

False Solomon's Seal, Maianthemum stellatum

flowering season: March - June

Stinking Milkvetch, Astragalus drummondi

flowering season: May - August

Prairie Evening Primrose, Whitest Evening Primrose, Oenothera albicaulis

flowering season: May - August

Silene latifolia

flowering season: June - September

Evening Star, Blazing Star, Moonflower, Mentzelia Decapetala

flowering season: July - September

Broadleaf Yucca, Soapweed, Spanish Bayonet, Mentzelia Decapetala

Ute: wíisivu; Arapaho: Si:cene:woxu (“stretched medicine grass”); Cheyenne: hestahpan o?e, hestahpan’eeste

flowering season: May - July

Argemone polyanthemos

flowering season: June - October

Achillea millefolium

Ute: quishee quish; Arapaho: No’oútíhi’ (“squirrel’s tail”), Nonooke’einou’u (“They have white heads”); Cheyenne: Hehaaheseeo?otse “cough medicine”

flowering season: May - October

Rocky Mountain marisposa lily, Calochortus gunnisonii

Ute: si′go, sikwu; Arapaho: Senéí’oxú:0e:’; Cheyenne: exaano?kane

flowering season: May - July

Mariposa is Spanish for butterfly, and these sweet beauties are also found fluttering through summer meadows 🤍 The species of mariposa lily found here along Colorado's Front Range is Gunnison's Mariposa, sharing a name with the Gunnison River, and the leader of a railroad expedition through the Black Canyon. She is also called sego, or seego (or sikoo), Shoshone for edible bulb; in Ute, si'go or siyoo 🤍 Her bulbs can be roasted or boiled, or dried, then ground and cooked into a soup or porridge. Her petals vary from white to purple, and her home is in the foothills and mountain meadows 🤍

Shop prints of Gunnison’s Mariposa Lily~ 5×7 * 8×10 * poster print

Carolina Larkspur, White Larkspur, Delphinium carolinianum

flowering season: May - July

Sulphur Indian Paintbrush, Yellow Paintbrush, Castilleja sulphurea

flowering season: June - August

Cryptantha virgata

flowering season: May - July

Northern Green Orchid, North Wind Bog Orchid, Platanthera aquilonis

flowering season: July - August

Green Gentian, Elkweed, Frasera speciosa

flowering season: July - August

Skyrocket, Fairy Trumpet, Ipomopsis aggregata

flowering season: May - August

Smoke On the Prairie, Variegated Spurge, Euphorbia marginata

flowering season: June - October

Meadow Death Camas, Toxicoscordion venenosum (first and second photos)

flowering season: April - July

Mountain Death Camas, Zigadenus elegans (third photo)

Ute: tabä′sigwĭv

flowering season: April - July

Symphyotrichum falactum

flowering season: July - October