Colorado Recommended
Commercially available native plant species suitable for planned landscapes in Colorado. Visit our Suppliers Directory to locate businesses that sell native plants or seeds or provide professional landscape or consulting services in this state. Visit the Organizations Directory to locate native plant societies, conservation groups, governmental agencies, botanical gardens, arboreta, and other plant-related organizations in this state.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
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Fraxinus pennsylvanica | Green Ash Red Ash Swamp Ash River Ash Water Ash Darlington Ash | |
Gaillardia aristata | Common Gaillardia Great Blanketflower Blanketflower Brown-eyed Susan | |
Gaillardia pulchella | Indian Blanket Firewheel Girasol Rojo | |
Gutierrezia sarothrae | Broom Snakeweed Kindlingweed Matchbrush Texas Snakeweed Broomweed Turpentine Weed Matchweed | |
Juniperus communis | Common Juniper | |
Juniperus horizontalis | Creeping Juniper Creeping Savin | |
Juniperus monosperma | Oneseed Juniper One-seed Juniper Cherrystone Juniper New Mexico Juniper West Texas Juniper | |
Juniperus scopulorum | Rocky Mountain Juniper Rocky Mountain Red Cedar Mountain Red Cedar Colorado Red Cedar Western Red Cedar River Juniper Western Juniper Cedro Rojo | |
Kalmia microphylla | Alpine Laurel | |
Krascheninnikovia lanata | Winterfat | |
Linum kingii | King's Flax | |
Linum lewisii var. lewisii | Prairie Flax Blue Flax | |
Liatris punctata | Dotted Blazing Star Dotted Gayfeather Dotted Liatris Purples | |
Lonicera involucrata | Twinberry Honeysuckle Black Twinberry Honeysuckle Black Twinberry Bearberry Honeysuckle Four-line Honeysuckle | |
Mahonia repens | Creeping Barberry Creeping Oregon-grape | |
Machaeranthera tanacetifolia | Tahoka Daisy Tansy-aster Tansey-leaf Tansy-aster Tansyleaf Tansyaster | |
Melampodium leucanthum | Blackfoot Daisy Rock Daisy Plains Blackfoot Arnica | |
Mimosa borealis | Fragrant Mimosa Pink Mimosa | |
Monarda punctata | Spotted Beebalm Spotted Horsemint Horsemint | |
Oenothera caespitosa | Tufted Evening Primrose Gumbo Evening Primrose Gumbo Lily Fragrant Evening Primrose Tufted Evening-primrose | |
Oenothera nuttallii | Nuttall's Evening-primrose | |
Pascopyrum smithii | Western Wheatgrass | |
Panicum virgatum | Switchgrass Wand Panic Grass | |
Penstemon angustifolius | Broadbeard Penstemon Broadbeard Beardtongue Whorled Penstemon Whorled Beardtongue | |
Penstemon barbatus | Scarlet Bugler Beard-lip Penstemon Beard-lip Beardtongue Red Penstemon Red Beardtongue Goldenbeard Penstemon Goldenbeard Beardtongue Saint Joseph's Staff Varita De San Jose | |
Penstemon jamesii | James's Penstemon James's Beardtongue James Penstemon James Beardtongue | |
Peritoma lutea | Yellow Bee-plant Yellow Spiderflower | |
Peritoma multicaulis | Slender Bee-plant Slender Spiderflower | |
Peritoma serrulata | Rocky Mountain Bee-plant Stinking-clover Bee Spiderflower Navajo Spinach Pink Cleome Toothed Spiderflower Skunkweed | |
Penstemon strictus | Rocky Mountain Penstemon Rocky Mountain Beardtongue | |
Physocarpus opulifolius | Common Ninebark Atlantic Ninebark | |
Pinus contorta | Lodgepole Pine Beach Pine Pino De San Pedro Martir | |
Pinus edulis | Colorado Pinyon Pine Colorado Pinyon Pinyon Pine Pinyon Two-needle Pine Two-needle Pinyon Two-leaf Pinyon Nut Pine Pino Dulce | |
Picea engelmannii | Engelmann's Spruce Engelmann Spruce | |
Pinus flexilis | Limber Pine Pino Enano | |
Pinus ponderosa | Ponderosa Pine Western Yellow Pine Pino Blanco | |
Picea pungens | Blue Spruce Colorado Spruce | |
Populus angustifolia | Narrowleaf Cottonwood Narrow-leaf Cottonwood | |
Populus deltoides | Eastern Cottonwood Carolina Poplar Necklace Poplar Alamo | |
Populus tremuloides | Quaking Aspen Golden Aspen Trembling Aspen Mountain Aspen Aspen Trembling Poplar Alamo Blanco | |
Prunus americana | American Plum Wild Plum | |
Prunus virginiana | Chokecherry Common Chokecherry Choke Cherry | |
Pulsatilla patens ssp. multifida | Cutleaf Anemone Pasqueflower Wild Crocus | |
Purshia tridentata | Antelope Bitterbrush Bitterbrush Antelope Brush | |
Quercus gambelii | Gambel Oak Rocky Mountain White Oak Utah White Oak | |
Ranunculus cardiophyllus | Heartleaf Buttercup Heart-leaf Buttercup | |
Ratibida columnifera | Mexican Hat Red-spike Mexican Hat Upright Prairie Coneflower Prairie Coneflower Long-headed Coneflower Thimbleflower | |
Rhus glabra | Smooth Sumac | |
Rhus trilobata | Skunkbush Skunkbush Sumac Fragrant Sumac Aromatic Sumac Scented Sumac Ill-scented Sumac Basketbush Squawbush | |
Rudbeckia hirta | Black-eyed Susan Common Black-eyed Susan Brown-eyed Susan Blackeyed Susan | |
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