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Aquilegia

Newsletter of the Colorado Native Plant Soeiety

. dedicated to the appreciation and conservation of the Colorado native flora ''

2007/2008 WORKSHOPS

The Colorado Native Plant Society workshops are designed for
plant enthusiasts of all levels, from novice to expert. During these
sessions there is usually plenty of time for learning and fun!
Choose either session I or 11, as they are more or less the same.
Plan on learning, discussing, socializing, eating and more learn-
ing.

Registration Information

^"^Registration is mail-in only and requires payment at the time of
registration. The fee for attending a workshop is $20/session for
members only. Nonmembers must join CONPS in order to be able
to register for a workshop. The registration fee is non-refundable.

Participation is often limited and registration is processed in the
order received. If the workshop has already been filled, you will
be notified, your check will not be deposited, and you will be
added to the waiting list if that is what you desire.

To register, please mail your check payable to CONPS for $20
per workshop along with the following information: title and date
of the workshop(s) you would like to attend, your name, address,
telephone number, and email address. Registration can only be
processed with all of this information. Please use the registration
order form provided in the newsletter and on our website. Regis-
tration applications will not be accepted until September 17, 2007.

Mail to; Mary Ellen Ford, 2133 13th Street, Boulder, CO 80302
For those who need to cancel at the last minute, we appreciate
your $20 contribution to CONPS and ask that you call or email
Mary Ellen (303-449-7334 or Fordmaryel@aol.com) so she has
he opportunity to fill your spot.

Future Workshop Planning

So many of our members are very knowledgeable and could pro-
vide wonderful learning experiences for other members wishing
to expand their plant horizons. Please consider leading a CONPS
workshop in the 2008-2009 season. Contact Mary Ellen Ford if
you are interested (Fordmaryel@aol.com or 303-449-7334).

Microscope Fund

Our purchase of new microscopes for CONPS workshops was
successful, with Keith Anderson facilitating our purchase. We col-
lected approximately 25% of the total purchase price during the
2006-2007 workshop season and hope to continue to do so each
year until the microscopes are fully paid. You can contribute
directly to the Microscope Fund by mailing contributions made
payable to CONPS to Mary Ellen Ford (2133 13th Street, Boulder,
CO 80302). Additionally, $8 of the $20 registration fee for the
workshops goes directly to the Microscope Fund.

“Workshops” continues on page 2

Contents

Workshops 1-3

Chapter Programs 4&7

Who’s in the Name? 5

Conservation Corner 6

Article 9-11

Book Reviews 8&12-13

Announcements 14

About the Society 15

Calendar 16

Volume 3 1 Number 5

Fall 2007

2007/2008 WORKSHOPS,co,,n.^„..„. „

POTENTILLAS OF COLORADO
Leader: Rich Scully

Location; Foothills Nature Center, Boulder
First Session; Saturday, October 13, 2007
Second Session: Sunday, October 14, 2007
Time: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

All of the Potentilla species that are native or naturalized in Col-
orado will be covered. Tips will be provided on which species are
most commonly confused, and how best to separate them. An
annotated key listing all of the distinguishing characteristics will
be provided. Photographs of the distinguishing characteristics,
from macroscopic to microscopic, will be shown. Pressed speci-
mens will be available to practice your identification skills. Par-
ticipants are encouraged to bring pressed or live examples of their
own troublesome specimens for the group to work on.

This workshop was provided in the 2006-2007 workshop season
and filled immediately after it was announced. We are offering it
again to provide everyone with another opportunity to benefit
from Rich’s amazing knowledge of Potentilla.

Potentilla plattensis

William & Wilma Follette @ USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database /
USDA NRCS. 1 992. Western wetland flora: Field office guide to
plant species. West Region, Sacramento, CA.

TOUR OF FLOWERING PLANTS
Leader: Priscilla Spears
Location: Foothills Nature Center, Boulder
First Session: Saturday, November 10, 2007
Second Session: Sunday, November 11, 2007
Time: 9 a.m. to noon

Participants will be provided with an overview of plant families
and evolutionary relationships using the modern system of
angiosperm classification. This classification system is based on
the work of a group of scientists organized as the Angiosperm
Phytogeny Group. It considers relationships among plants in light

of molecular, morphological, and other scientific evidence. Using
her book, A Tour of the Flowering Plants, Dr. Spears will mak
this classification system accessible to all participants.

PLANTS OF THE FOUR CORNERS:

CANYON DE CHELLY AND MESA VERDE
Leader; Jan and Charlie Turner
Location: Foothills Nature Center, Boulder
First Session; Saturday, December 1, 2007
Second Session: Sunday, December 2, 2007
Time: 9 a.m. to 1 1 a.m.

Escape to the warm and sunny Four Corners region for the morn-
ing. Come enjoy a slide presentation on the plants of Canyon de
Chelly and Mesa Verde. Learn about the parks and the plants that
grow there. Forget about the cold and think sun! Jan and Charlie
Turner are the authors/ photographers of Wildflowers of Canyon
de Chelly and Wildflowers of Mesa Verde.

INTRODUCTION TO ASTERACEAE
WITH EMPHASIS ON THE SUNFLOWER TRIBE
(HELIANTHEAE)

Leader; David Buckner
Location: Foothills Nature Center, Boulder
First Session: Saturday, January 12, 2008
Second Session: Sunday, January 13, 2008
Time: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

This basic introduction to the sunflower family will explain and
illustrate nomenclature and structures. The emphasis will be to
help participants past the initial family confusion and to become
more familiar with this ubiquitous group of plants. Participants
will have available mounted specimens for review, as well as col-
lected materials for dissection.

MINTS OF COLORADO
Leader: Rich Scully

Location: Foothills Nature Center, Boulder
First Session: Saturday, February 9, 2008
Second Session; Sunday, February 10, 2008
Time; 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The various genera of mints (Lamiaceae ) that are native or natu-
ralized in Colorado will be covered. Photographs will illustrate the
plants and their distinguishing characteristics, both large and
small. Pressed specimens will be available to examine and sniff.

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PENSTEMONS

CAREX

Leaders: Andi Wolfe and Carol English
Location: UCDHSC Downtown Denver Campus
First Session: Saturday, April 12, 2008
Second Session: Sunday, April 13,2008
Time: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Penstemon, which is restricted in distribution to the new world,
comprises approximately 270 species, most of which occur in
western North America. The flora of Colorado comprises over 55
species alone, many of which are endemic to the state. Dr. Andi
Wolfe (Ohio State University) will lead the Saturday workshop
during which she will provide an overview of the beardtongues
and discuss the recent break-up of the Scrophulariaceae. On Sun-
day, Carol English will lead a workshop covering the more com-
monly encountered Front Range Penstemon species.

PLANT TERMINOLOGY
Leader: Mary Ellen Ford

Location: CU Greenhouses, 1380 30th Street, Boulder
First Session: Saturday, May 3, 2008
Second Session: Sunday, May 4, 2008
Time: 9 a.m. to noon

this workshop participants will gain a working knowledge of
the terminology used in plant identification. Using the text, Plant
Identification Terminology, by James G. Harris and Melinda
Woolf Harris, 2nd edition (2001), and the amazing plant collec-
tion at the 30th Street greenhouses, we will learn the terminology
by category. The focus will be stems, surfaces, and leaves (particu-
larly leaf shapes, leaf bases, leaf apices, leaf division, leaf mar-
gins, leaf attachment, leaf arrangement, etc.). Participants will not
identify plants - just plant parts!

Penstemon cobaea

Clarence A. Rechenthin @
USDA-NRCS PLANTS
Database

Leaders: Tony Reznicek

Location: UCDHSC Downtown Denver Campus
First Session: Friday, June 27, 2008
Tentative Time: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Second Session: Saturday, June 28, 2008
Tentative Time: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Field Trip: Sunday, June 29, 2008
With nearly 2000 species worldwide, Carex is one of the more
complex genera taxonomically. Tony Reznicek, an expert on the
genus, has been invited to lead a workshop and accompanying
field trip emphasizing sedge identification. Participants will be
given the opportunity to develop skills in the identification of
sedges through a combination of short presentations and use of
keys. Participants are encouraged to bring their own specimens for
identification; for those unable to do so, specimens will be provid-
ed. Although the field trip requires a separate registration, concur-
rent registration for one of the two workshop sessions is required.

nfinreir

FIEDLTRIP

WINTER BOTANY AT
BRAINARD LAKE RECREATION AREA
January 12, 2008, 1 1 :00 am
Leader: Leo P. Bruederle

Leo Bruederle will once again attempt to lead a trip emphasizing
identification of plants in their winter condition (NOTE: a similar
trip was cancelled in 2007 due to low temperatures). Brainard
Lake Reereation Area is in the Roosevelt National Forest west of
Ward, CO (Boulder County). As such, we will be snowshoeing
through subalpine meadows, forests, and woodlands, while identi-
fying the prominent shrubs and trees dominating the gently slop-
ing landscape. However, we will also take advantage of our under-
standing of basic botany to identify weeds and other herbaceous
plants using characteristics of their growth form, inflorescence,
and fruit. Why put our hand lenses and field keys away in Sep-
tember with winter botany still ahead. To register for this field trip
co-sponsored by the UCDHSC Department of Biology, please
contact Leo at leo.bruederle(@ciidenver.edu or 303-556-3419.

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2007/2008 CHAPTER PROGRAMS

BOULDER CHAPTER

Boulder Chapter meetings are on the sec-
ond Thursday of each month (Autumn to
early Spring) at 7 p.m. Meet at the City of
Boulder Open Space and Mountain Parks
offices in the north building conference
room, 66 South Cherry vale Road. Contaet
Deby Stabler (debystabler@yahoo.com or
303-902-4679) for more information.

October 11: Fens and Fen Plants of the
Rocky Mountains. .Ioanna Lemly, Wetland
Ecologist, Colorado Natural Heritage Pro-
gram, Colorado State University.

Nestled in subalpine basins and sloping
valleys, the Rocky Mountains contain
thousands of permanently saturated wet-
lands known as fens. These sites are
groundwater fed and have water
tables so stable that undecomposed
organic matter accumulates over
thousands of years to form thick lay-
ers of organic soil, commonly
referred to as peat. The saturated,
organic soils of mountain fens sup-
port extremely high plant diversity
compared to the surrounding forest-
ed landscape, including many
species considered rare in our
region. Come learn about how and
where fens form in the Rocky
Mountain landscape and which environ-
mental factors influence species distribu-
tion. There will be a particular focus on
rare fen sedges and the wide variety of
moss species found in these wet and
squishy environments. The presentation
will draw on four years of research in fens
in Yellowstone National Park, the San Juan
Mountains of Colorado, and Boulder
County. Take a tour of Roeky Mountain
fens, without needing to put on your boots!

November 8: Medicines of Colorado
Plants. Paul Bergner, Medical Herbalist,
Clinical Nutritionist, and Director of the
North American Institute of Medical
Herbalism

Paul Bergner will talk about various Col-
orado medicinal plants. The emphasis will
be on plants that are used in contemporary
medical herbalism in North America, and
the focus will be on plant conservation.
Plants to be discussed include Pines, wil-
lows and poplars; Prunus, Osha, Baneber-
ry, Aralia nudicaulis, Eupatorium niacuia-
tum, Pulsatilla patens. Valerian, Oregon
grape. Evening primrose, Scullcap, Uva
ursi, Pipsissewa, Anemopsis, Arnica,
anemopsis, and arnicas.

December 13: America's Lost Landscape:
The Tallgrass Prairie, FILM
This award winning film tells the rich and
complex story of one of the most astonish-
ing alterations of nature in human history.
Prior to Euro-American settlement in the
1 820s, one of the major landscape features
of North America was 240 million acres of
tallgrass prairie. But between 1830 and
1900 — in the span of a single lifetime —
the prairie was steadily transformed to

Carex scirpoidea
USDA-NRCS PLANTS
Database / USDA
NRCS. Wetland flora:
Field office illustrated
guide to plant species.
USDA Natural
Resources Conservation
Service.

farmland. This drastic change in the land-
scape brought about an enormous socir
change for Native Americans. In an equally
short time their cultural imprint was
reduced in essence to a handful of place-
names appearing on maps. The extraordi-
nary cinematography of prairie remnants,
original score and archival images are all
delicately interwoven to create a powerful
and moving viewing experience about the
natural and cultural history of America.
Amongst those interviewed are writer Day-
ton Duncan, Wes Jackson of The Land
Institute, biologist Laura Jackson, linguist
Jerome Kills Small, historian Anton
Treuer, landscape historian Lance Foster,
writer Richard Manning, and Nina
Leopold Bailey and Carol Leopold
- two of Aldo Leopold's children.

January 10: Adapting Native
Plants for the Home Garden. Julie
Artz, Native Plant Master Appren'^i^
tice.

February 14: No meeting

March 13: Ten Years of Restoring
Boulder’s Wildlands: Volunteers
Make it Happen. John Giordanen-
go. Projects Director, Wildlands
Restoration Volunteers
A blend of restoration ecology, steward-
ship, partnerships with local agencies, and
the future of restoration in the Front
Range.

April 10: TBA

May 8: Native Plant Hike and Picnic

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WHO IN THAT NAME?

Augustus Fendler

Fendiera rupicola

A! Schneider

Augustus Fendler's name is well known
to Colorado plant lovers; dozens of Col-
orado plant species and two genera bear his
name. Surprisingly, Fendler collected in'
the West for only two years.

Fendler began his botanical collecting
life with lessons from George Engelmann
in St. Louis in 1 844. Fendler then practiced
collecting in the St. Louis area for a time
and his success encouraged Engelmann to
lend him $ 1 00 and to join with Asa Gray in
sponsoring Fendler for a collecting expedi-
tion in the Southwest. In 1845 Gray
arranged for Fendler to travel to Santa Fe in
the company of federal troops on their way
to the Mexican-American War. In 1846,
after botanizing on the way to Santa Fe,
Fendler began a year of avid collecting in
Santa Fe and quickly became a highly
spected collector.

Fendler returned to St. Louis after this
two year Santa Fe trip and received high
praise from Gray for the quality of his col-
lection: Fendler was, said Gray, a "quick
and keen observer and an admirable collec-
tor" (Gray's words in the American Journal

of Science and Arts, 1885).

Fendler began a second western
collecting expedition to the Great
Basin in 1 849 but early in the trip
west he lost all of his gear, note-
books, specimens — everything,
in a flood. When he returned to
St. Louis he found his posses-
sions there had been destroyed in
a major fire on the Mississippi
River waterfront. Dejected and
disgusted, he left the United
States for a number of years and
never returned to collecting in
the Southwest. Thus we know the name
Fendler because of just two years that he
collected on his trip to Santa Fe.

Fendler was not always an avid botanist;
his enthusiasm and knowledge of botany
began on an 1844 visit to Prussia, the
country he had been born in but had left for
the United States in 1836. In his 1844 visit
he spent time with Ernst Meyer, Professor
of Botany at the University at Konigsberg,
and learned of the economic possibilities
in botanical collecting. In his previous
eight years in the United States,
Fendler had wandered through
various jobs from New York, to
Philadelphia, to New Orleans, to
St. Louis, to homesteading in
Texas, to the life of a hermit on an
island in the Missouri (where he
was washed out by a flood), to
school teaching in Illinois. He
was always shy and a loner in the
form ofThoreau, but by 1844 he
was hungry for a productive and
steady job. He found his niche as
a botanical collector.

The disastrous occurences at the

beginning of his second western collecting
trip ended his western U.S. collecting, but
he remained a traveler and collector for the
rest of his life. He spent over four years in
Venezuela where he amassed a collection
of over 2,600 plants, 223 of which were
type specimens. While in Venezuela his
"principle companions" were, according to
Asa Gray, his thermometer and barometer,
and with these he recorded detailed meteo-
rological data for the Smithsonian.

A I Schneider is CON PS webmaster and
has generously taken the time to write our
‘Who ’s in that Name? ' Column. He can be
reached at wehmaster@conps.org.

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CONSER VA TION CORNER

Oil and Gas Drilling - How Will It Affect Colorado's Flora?

by Erin Robertson

Whether you live in Erie or Grand Junction, Durango or
Trinidad, you probably have experienced oil and gas wells pop-
ping up overnight. This drilling frenzy may have real effects on
Colorado's flora. But you can help - by conducting or supporting
research on the impacts on native plants, by documenting
drilling problem areas, or by lending your voice to the call for
responsible drilling practices.

Just how much drilling is happening in Colorado now? More
than in the past, but not nearly as much as is projected. The Col-
orado Oil and Gas Commission's website provides weekly
reports on drilling activity. As of July 6th, there were 1 17 drill
rigs operating in the state and 32,033 active oil and gas wells -
over 9,000 more than five years ago. The boom has not peaked
yet. Last year, the state approved 5,904 permits for new wells,
many of which will not be drilled for years. This represents a
37% increase over the number approved the year before, more
than a threefold increase from 2000.

The Bureau of Land Management's projections are also
enlightening. The management plan for the Piceance Basin,
written in 1997, expected that 1,300 new wells would be drilled
in that area over 20 years. The BLM has already run up against
that limit, and announced last fall that they projected that 13,000
wells would be drilled there - they had been off by an order of
magnitude. The BLM has already ratcheted that number up
again, and now will plan for 22,000 wells in that Field Office
alone.

New wells convert habitat. The BLM estimates that an average
well pad disturbs four acres and leads to another 12 acres of new
roads. These disturbed sites are likely to remain altered for
decades. The BLM usually has lower standards for "interim"
reclamation than for "final," and the latter is only required after
a well is taken out of production. Technology and economics
both make formerly marginal wells profitable, so many wells
continue to produce for decades. One operator in the Piceance
Basin recently commented that they started drilling in 1983 and
have not plugged a single well. The BLM also recently indicated
that there are no examples of mature, successful oil and gas
reclamation in the Piceance Basin yet.

Weeds are major cause for concern, especially since effective
cheatgrass control options are lacking. Even efforts to avoid

weed establishment may have undesirable consequences. Two
companies mentioned recently that they are using grass-only
seed mixes rather than forbs, which would be killed by broadleaf
herbicides anyway. Non-native sterile hybrids are also being
used to create a cover crop to compete with the weeds. Reestab-
lishment can take sagebrush decades and pinyon-juniper cen-
turies, so even if weeds do not infest an area, we may never see it
return to what it once was.

We are engaging in a major experiment in Colorado now with
no accompanying study design. The BLM is mostly preventing
the outright destruction of rare plants, but indirect effects from
drilling (dust deposition, pollinator disturbance, increased
access, changes in hydrology, etc.) are not being monitored. The
oil and gas industry is finally coming to terms with effects to
sage-grouse now because researchers have been able to docu-
ment drilling-related declines. And we need the same kind of
rigorous research for plants, if we are to be effective at mitigat-
ing impacts to them. Please contact our organization if you are
interested in specific research suggestions. You can also help by
watchdogging oil and gas activities and/or rare plant sites - the
Colorado Natural Areas Program coordinates volunteer stewards
who report on conditions in many special places around the
state. Or sign up for our action alert email list and send in com-
ments calling for the conservation of rare plants in the next BLM
plan revision - the Glenwood Springs and Kremmling offices are
up next.

As of 2004, 4.6 million acres in Colorado were leased to the oil
and gas industry, and much of this area consists of the public
lands that are supposed to belong to all Coloradoans, including
our native plants. Please consider how you might be able to help
conserve our natural heritage by promoting responsible drilling.

Erin Robertson is
the Senior Staff
Biologist at the
Center for Native
Ecosystems. She
can be reached at
erin @nati veecosys-
tems.org

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CHAPTER PROGRAMS (continued from page4)

NORTHERN COLORADO CHAPTER

rCoiitact Denise Culver (970-491-2998 or
dculver@lamar.colostate.edu) for more
information.

the year. The meetings will be held on Tues-
days at 7pm. Contact Vickey Trammell at
jrtrambo@aol.com or 303-795-5843 for
more information.

October 3: Celastraceae and Friends from
Madagascar. Dr. Mark Simmons, Curator.

Mark will present a general-interest (i.e.,
little scientific content) 50-minute presenta-
tion on his two-month plant collecting trip to
Madagascar in December 2006 - January
2007. The talk is divided into eight parts:
geological history of Madagascar, human
history of Madagascar, Madagascar today,
overview of flora and fauna, the capital -
Antananarivo, collecting overview, vegeta-
tion in regions visited, and conclusions. For
those who would like to stay after the ques-
tion session, Mark will give a quick tour of
just what it means to be stuck in the mud in
Madagascar during the rainy season.

7; Fens and Fen Plants of the Rocky
Mountains. Joanna Lemly, Wetland Ecolo-
gist, Colorado Natural Fleritage Program
Colorado State University.

See description under Boulder Chapter.

METRO-DENVER CHAPTER

Megan Bowes and Vickey Trammell have
agreed to be co-presidents of the Denver
Chapter. Megan will be our contact with the
state organization and Vickey will preside
over the meetings and take care of things at
the local end. Megan works for Boulder
Open space and is CONPS chairperson for
Education and Outreach. Vickey is retired
from Arapahoe Community College biology
department (but is still teaching). She is a
long time volunteer naturalist at Roxborough
State Park and is a forensic botanist. Both
Vickey and Megan are lining up speakers for

September 25: Dan Johnson, Florticulturist
at Denver Botanic Gardens will lead the
group through the Gardens to visit the areas
where native plants grow. Meet in the War-
ing House.

October 30: Pam Irwin, author of the Col-
orado's Best WildfJower Hikes series will
give us an inside look at what went into the
creation of such a wonderful series. Waring
House.

December 11
January 22
February 26
March 25
April 22
May 27

TBA, Gates Hall, DBG.
Topic and location TBA
Topic and location TBA
Topic and location TBA
Topic and location TBA
Topic and location TBA

PLATEAU CHAPTER

Contact Jeanne Wenger (970-256-9227 or
stweandjaw@acsol.com) or see our website
for information on chapter activities.

SOUTHWEST CHAPTER

Contact A1 Schneider (970-882-4647 or
webmaster@conps.org) or see our website
for information on chapter activies.

Celastrus scandens
USDA-NRCS PLANTS
Database / Britton, N.L.
and A. Brown. 1913.
Illustrated flora of the
northern states and
Canada. Vol. 2:493.

Book

Announcement

Wildjlowers of Mesa Verde by
CoNPS members Jan Loechell Turner
and Charles Turner was published in
July. Book Two of the Rabbitbrush
Wildflower Series, it is a full color
guide to some of the most common
plants found along the roads and trails
of Mesa Verde National Park. A close
up and distant photo of each plant
allow for easy identification. Descrip-
tive, ecological, and ethnobotanical
information is included. Each page has
a place to enter the date and location
where the plant was seen, and the stur-
dy spiral binding enables the user to
fold the book flat to write notes. The
book is available through CoNPS or
directly from Rabbitbrush Publishing
(www.rabbitbrushpublishing.com). In
the spring of 2008, Book Three of the
series, Wildjlowers of Red Rocks Park,
will be published.

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BOOKREVJEWS

by Jan Loechell Turner

Botany in a Day: The Patterns Method of
Plant Identification by Thomas J. Elpel
Hops Press, 5th ed., 2006. $25.

Founder of the Hollowtop Outdoor Prim-
itive School and the 3Rivers Park organiza-
tion, author Thomas Elpel has produced a
book designed to accelerate the mastery of
plant identification and herbology. Elpel
uses the patterns method, highlighting key
plant family features to enable the reader to
more easily identify related plants. There
are no color photos in this 8.5 x 1 1" book
but, interestingly, it contains black and
white illustrations that the author adopted
from public domain sources published in
the 1800s and early 1900s. Entries consist
of a description of distinguishing charac-
teristics, medicinal properties, and a num-
ber of genera in the family. These are
accompanied by line drawings illustrating
typical family members. Elpel has created
a website (http://www.wildfIowers-and-
weeds.com ) containing hundreds of color
photos that supplement the book. Botany
in a Day is a useful guide for anyone inter-
ested in becoming acquainted with the key
features of plant families.

Wild about Wildflowers; Extreme Botaniz-
ing in Crested Butte, Wildflower Capital of
Colorado by Katherine, Darrow, 2nd ed.
Glendale, AZ: WildKat Publishing, 2006.
224 p. $26.95 pb. First published by Heel
and Toe publisher. Fort Collins, CO 1998.

In a recent issue of Aqiiilegia (Vol. 31,
No. 1), the Colorado Book Award winner,
Wild at Heart by Janis Huggins, was
reviewed. This month let's go wild again
with Wild about Wildflowers, another out-
standing book. Both books concentrate on
specific areas, Huggins' on the Snowmass
area and Darrow's on Crested Butte. They
are similar in format, though Huggins'
book covers both plants and wildlife,
whereas Darrow's book focuses on wild-
flowers. Both have keys to families, a color
photo album of flowers, and use the scien-
tific names from Hartman and Nelson's
Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Col-
orado (2001) with those from Weber &
Wittman's Colorado Flora: Western Slope
(2001) noted in parentheses, when differ-
ent. They also contain boxes with fascinat-
ing ecological and natural history notes.
Examples of side box topics covered by
Darrow are albino wildflowers, pollinators,
nutcrackers, and circumpolar distribution.

Wild about Wildflowers begins with
background information about Crested
Butte, which includes geography, geology,
climate, plant communities, and a section
on plants and the law. The book ends with a
dozen wildflower trails, a color guide to
flowers (thumbnails arranged by color and
family), references, family key, and index.
The main part of the book is comprised of
beautiful color photos of the wildflowers,
grasses, shrubs, and trees of Crested Butte
arranged alphabetically by the scientific

name of the family. Entries for the plants
consist of the common and scientific
names plus descriptive, ecological, and
ethnobotanical information. Non-native
species are indicated. The book is home to
quotations from a variety of authors rang-
ing from John Muir to Kahlil Gibran. The
format and accessible style of the book are
very pleasing.

Bring this book along when you attend
the Crested Butte Wildflower Festival
(http://www.shopcrestedbutte.com/wild-
flower) next July. If you get bored, you can
flip the pages in the back to create a mov-
ing cartoon of a flower being pollinated
and going to seed.

Katherine Darrow has an M.S. in botany
from CSU and has worked as environmen-
tal educator and a botanist. A number of
photographers contributed their work to
the book, which includes almost twice as
many photos as the first edition.

Jan Loechell Turner works at Regis Uni-
versity and is the CONPS Research Grants
Committee Chair. Jan is also our source
for great book reviews.

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Wildflowers of Rabbit Mountain

Eagle Wind Trail, Boulder County Open Space

Ann Henson

As soon as the soil warms in spring,
flowers begin to appear on Rabbit
Mountain. The "mountain" is the first
hogback west from the prairie located
near Lyons, CO. It has a mix of
prairie, foothills and montane plants.
All kinds of flowers come and go dur-
ing the season. Only the frost of fall
stops the show.

In a five year survey from 1999 to
2004, a total of 186 species were
observed with 128 seen most years.
Fifty one species are seen only occa-
sionally, or have been seen only once
and so are not listed (data is available
on request). During these years, rain-
fall in each year (7-14") was below the
previous 10 year average of 15.5". In

spite of this, the most common
species grew and bloomed. Their
numbers and height may have been
less. But, our native flora has evolved
in drought as well as better times. So,
the wildflowers of Rabbit Mountain
continue to bring us j oy
The most common flowering plants
on Rabbit Mountain are listed here
grouped by color. Within each color,
blooms are listed in approximate
chronological order.

This project wr/.? completed by Ann
Henson, 926 Yucca Ct, Longmont CO
80501.

Psoralea tenuiflora

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and
A. Brown. 1913. Illustrated flora of the northern
states and Canada. Vol. 2: 361

*Co!or: B=Blue, G=Green, O^Orange, PI=Pink, PU^Purple

“ Primary bloom time^^^J

, I

R=Red, W^White, Y=Yellow

Occassional bloom time

!

Common Name

Scientific Name

"Rower

Color

Early'

Apr

Mid

Apr

Early

May

Chiming bells

Mertensia lanceolate ■

B

Blue flax

Adenolinum lewisii

B

Common stickseed

Lappula redowskii

B

■ ■ I

Skullcap

Scutellaria brittonii

B

Bluemist penstemon

Penstemon virens

B

Western spiderwort

Tradescantia occidentalis

B

Scurf pea

Psoralidium tenuiflorum

B

Common harebell

Campanula rotundifolia

B

Bl oomin g

' Mid

I July

Early
Aug !

Mid

Aug

Early j
Sept

i

I

Poa se cunda
Anisantha tectorum

Rocky mountain bluegrass Poa a gassizensis

Smooth brome Bromopsis inermis

Annual spurge Tithyma lus spathuiatus

Junegrass l<oe[eria macrantha

Japanese brome Bromus japonicus

Orchardgrass Da ctylis glomerata

Needle and thread grass Hesperostipa comata

Sandberg bluegrass
Cheatgrass

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Indiangrass

Sorghastrum nutans

Buffalograss

Buchloe dactyloides

Green milkweed

Asclepias viridiflora

Chondro^um g racilis

Blue grama

Thick^ike wh eatgras s Elym us l anceolatus

Wolftait

Lycu rus phleoides

Sideo ats grama

Bouteloua curtip endula

Big bluestem

Andropogon gerardn

Canada wiidrye

Elymus canadensis

Panicum virg atum

Switch grass

Little bluestem
Tall dropseed

Schizachyrium scoparium
Sporobolus asper

Sand dropseed

Sporobolus cryptandrus

Oligosporus dracunculus ssp. glaucus G

Wild tarragon

Field sagewort- gray Oligosporus campestris ssp. pacificus G

Field sagewort- green Oligosporus campestris ssp caudatus G

Arnica fulgens

Orange, arnica

Copper mallow

Sphaera lce a coc cinea

Lanceleaf spring beauty 'Claytonia rosea

Storksbill

Erodium cicutarium

Wax currant

Ribes cereum

Fremont geranium

Geranium caespitosum

Cerco ca rp us montan us

Mountain mahogany

Penstemon secundiflorus

Sidebells penstemon

Scarlet gaura

Tall gaura

Gaura parviflora

Wavyleaf thistle

Cirsium undulatum

Qxy baphus hirsutus

Phyla cuneifolia

Fogfruit

Blue mustard

Chorispora tenella

Oxytropis la mbertii

Lambert locoweed

Glandularia bipinnatifida

Showy verbena
Vervain

Verbena bracteata

Purple three awn

Aristida purpurea

Quincula lobata

Chinese lantern

Purple prairie clover

Dalea purpurea

Gay feath er

L^atris p unctata

Popul us deltoides

Plains Cottonwood

Salt & pepper

Lomatium orientale

Sand lily

Leucocrinum montanum

Whiplash erigonum Erigero n colo- mex ican us

Mouse-eared chickweed Cerastium strictum

Prunus americana

Chokecherry

Padus virginiana ssp. melanocarpa

Death camas

Toxicoscordion venenosum

Townsendia exscapa

White onion

Allium textile

Phacelia heterophylla

Scorpionweed

Bindweed

Convolvulus arvensis

Blooming

—

Common Name

Scientific Name

Flower

Color

Early

Apr

Mid

Apr

Early

May

Mid

May

Early Mid Early
June June July

Mid

July

Early

Aug

Mid

Aug

Early

Sept

Mid

Sept

Squirreltail

Elymus longifolius

G

Griffiths wheatgrass

Elymus lanceolatus

G

Western wheatgrass

Pascopyrum smithii

G

Canada bluegrass

Poa compressa

G

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Blooming

Early

Mid Early

Mid Early Mid Early

Mid

Early

Mid

Early

Mid

Apr

Apr May

May June June July

July

Aug

Aug

Sept

Sept

Wild parsfey

Nuttall violet

Sun sedge

Mojjntain blat^derpod
Yellow alyssum
False dandelion
Small seed false flax
Three leaf sumac
Golden smoke
Flixweed

Western wallflower
Mountain parsley
Yellow nipple cactus
Narrowleaf puccoon

Tara>«cum off icina le
Musineon divaricatum

Viola nuttallii __

Carex pensylvanica ssp. h^iophila
Lesquerella montana
Alyssum parvi^rum _
Nothocalais cuspidata
Camelina microcarpa

Rhus aromatica ssp. trilobata

Corydalis aurea

Descurainia sophia

Erysimum capitatum _

Pseudocymopterus montanus

Coryphantha missouri ensis

Lithospermum incisum

Ther mopsis divaricarpa

jjarbouria trachypleura

Sisymbrium altissimum

T ragopogon dub[us

Drymocallis fissa _

Pinus pondero sa ss p scopujorum

|Turritis_glabra

Descurainia pinnata |

Podospermum laciniatum

Linaria genistifolia ssp. daimatica

Eriogonum flavum

Physalis viriginiana

Oxalis dillenii

Heterotheca vill^sa

Gaillardia a ristata

Hymenopappus filifolius var. ci nereus |
Amerosedum lanceolatum
Calylophus serrulatus

Helianthus pun^ilus _ ,

Ratibida columnifera _

O punt ia ma c rorhiz a/polyacantha
Tr a gia ra mosa

Verbascum b l attaria

Pterogonum alatum
Helianthus a nnuus
Grindelia squarrosa

Solidago specioja var. paHida

Ambrosia psilostachya

Solidago nana

Artemisia ludoviciana

Chr ysothamnus nauseosus

Artemisia frigida _

Senecio spartioides

B rickellia rosmarinifoli a ssp. chlorolepi

Winged buckwheat
Common sunflower
Curlycu p gumweed
Showy goidenrod
Ragweed

Goidenrod

White sage
Rabbitbrush

Fringed sage

Butterweed

none

Broom snakeweed

Dandelion

Flower

Color

w

w

w

w

w

w

w

Golden banner
Whiskbroom parsley
Tumble mustard
Salsify

Leafy potentilla
Ponderosa pine
Tower mustard
Tansy mustard
False salsify
Dalmation toadflax
Sulfur flower
Tall groundcherry
Yeljow wo od sorrel
Golden aster
Indian blanketflower

Common Name

Richardson's geranium

Marbieseed

Yucca

Gunnison sego lily

Showy Easter daisy

Prickly poppy

Porter aster

Scientific Name

Geranium richardsonii

Onosmodium molle ssp. occidentale
Yucca glauca
Calochortus gunnisonii
To wnsendia g randiflora

Argemone polyanthemos

Aster porteri

none

Yellow stonecrop
Sundrops
Bush sunflower

Prairie coneflower
P rickly pear catcus

none

Moth mullein

Y

Y

Y-G

Gutierrezia sarothrae

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by Walter Fertig

Growing Native Plants of the Rocky Moun-
tain Area. By Robert D. Dorn and Jane L.
Dorn. 2007. 252 pages. Book version:
$82.94 plus postage, available at
www.lulii.com/content/76823 1 . CD-rom
version: $7.50 plus postage, available at
w-'ww. lulu, com/con tent/78 7924.

Perhaps unique among all animals,
humans have an innate need to garden.
The earliest gardeners (dating back 14,000
years) were driven primarily by a need for
food and fiber. Besides cereal grains,
some of the earliest edible crops grown by
people included showy flowers such as
dahlias, sacred lotus, violets, and primros-
es. These latter species eventually fell out
of favor as new edible species were
brought into cultivation, yet they continued
to be grown into modern times. Though
we may never know if our Neolithic ances-
tors had an aesthetic sense, is it so far-
fetched to assume that they did not also
enjoy the beauty of the crop flowers that
they grew?

Nearly as ingrained as the need to garden
is the desire to grow new and unusual plant
species. Since the 15th Century, European
explorers and traders have scoured the
Earth for previously unknown plants to
name, categorize, and introduce into horti-
culture. While many introduced species
have been beneficial, others have escaped
to become serious pests, disrupting natural
habitats, displacing vulnerable native
plants, and competing with more desirable
crop species for space and nutrients.

The invasive species crisis has con-
tributed to a renewed interest in native
plants as an alternative for use in gardens
and public landscaping. Natives are
increasing in popularity due to their adapt-

ability to local soils and climates, and
because they usually require less water and
less care once established. Gardeners are
also increasingly learning that native
species are just as attractive as introduced
species. With rising demand, natives are
becoming more readily available commer-
cially.

The surge in popularity of native plants is
reflected in the growing number of books
devoted to native plant cultivation and gar-
den design. A new entry into this field is
Growing Native Plants of the RocM Moun-
tain Area, self-published by Robert and
Jane Dorn. The Dorns are no strangers to
members of the Wyoming Native Plant
Society - Bob is author of Vascular Plants
of Wyoming (the state's most current and
comprehensive plant identification manu-
al), and Jane and Bob have written a guide
to Wyoming birds and birding areas. This
foray into horticulture may seem like a new
direction, but actually the Dorns have been
long-time amateur native plant gardeners
in eastern Wyoming. Their 30 plus years
of experience growing Rocky Mountain
native plants, coupled with their intimate

Ratibida tagetes

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton,
N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. Illustrated flora
of the northern states and Canada. Vol. 3:
475.

knowledge of the regional flora, is cap-
tured in this new book.

Unlike many other native gardening""^
books on the market, Growing Native
Plants of the Rocky Mountain Area is
geared specifically for the demanding
growing conditions of the Rocky Mountain
states (defined by the Dorns as all of Mon-
tana, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, and Col-
orado, the NE corner of Nevada, northern
New Mexico, and the western quarter of
the Dakotas and Nebraska). Dorn and
Dorn have recognized that the convention-
al USDA hardiness zone criteria (based on
the average lowest winter temperature of
an area) are inadequate in predicting how
well many native and non-native plants
will adjust to the Rocky Mountain climate
where temperature extremes (as great as
140 degrees F between summer highs to
winter lows) truly dictate which plants will
persist. In place of the familiar USDA sys-
tem, the Dorns have developed a moix^^.
appropriate, ecologically-based system for
classifying the nine major plant regions of
the Rocky Mountains. Each plant region
has a characteristic flora shaped by differ-
ences in soils, topography, and the timing
and quantity of precipitation. By recogniz-
ing the needs of a particular species
according to its plant region preferences,
the home gardener has a better chance of
identifying plants that will be suited for
their particular garden. Homeowners can
also make better decisions about what spe-
cific microsites are best suited for a partic-
ular plant (such as warm, south-facing
slopes for drought-hardy species), or
whether they will need to ameliorate their
growing conditions through seasonal irri-
gation or soil treatments. For example,
New Mexico locust (Robinia

“Book Review” continued on page 1 3

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BOOK REVIEW (cont. from page 12)

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database

neomexicana), a common flowering shrub
from the Southern Mountains Region of
south-central Colorado, the Utah High
Plateaus, and northern New Mexico, is
adapted to the high summer precipitation
this region, and thus may not thrive in
otherwise similar mountainous areas that
lack a monsoon unless supplemental mois-
ture is provided. This kind of Rocky Moun-
tain-specific gardening information is
often lacking in other guides that are
geared for more general, widespread audi-
ences, or assume everyone has great loamy
soil, adequate water, and plenty of frost
free days (okay for California maybe, but
not perhaps for Laramie, or Rock Springs,
or where you actually live).

The introductory chapters describe spe-
cific environmental factors affecting plant
distribution and survival (such as soils,
moisture availability, topography, light,
temperature, and snow cover), how these
factors affect how a garden should be laid
out to mimic natural habitats; how to treat
weeds; plant pests; and how to attract
irds. Scattered among these chapters are

seven "principles" that pithily summarize
the take-home lessons of gardening with
native plants in the Rockies. These princi-
ples all seem straight-forward (e.g., princi--
pie 5: "the major enemies of plant
seedlings are not enough water, too much
water, molds, animal consumers, and com-
petition from other plants"), but all provide
a succinct summary of the typical errors
novice gardeners make when trying to
grow new plants. There are books that go
into greater detail on all of these topics, but
the Dorns have done a nice job of condens-
ing these concepts into one easy to com-
prehend reference appropriate to our local
conditions.

Most of Growing Native Plants is devot-
ed to a full color section describing over
400 native tree, shrub, grass, and wild-
flower species suited for garden use in the
Rocky Mountain region. The species
accounts include information on which of
the nine regions of the Rockies the plant is
best suited for, along with a brief descrip-
tion of its growth habit and appearance,
habitat, cultivation, and means for propa-
gation. The photos accompanying the
descriptions are of high quality and large
size (one of my pet peeves with many hor-
ticulture books is how tiny and grainy the
photos are) and show just how beautiful
our native plants can be. For those who are
not swayed by appeals to reduce global
homogenization, save water, or reduce
demands for fertilizer, the photos alone are
perhaps the best promotion for going
native.

Plant descriptions are arranged alphabeti-
cally by scientific name. This may prove a
challenge for those who are squeamish
about taxonomic names (especially since
the nomenclature follows more recent
treatments and use some unfamiliar names

for asters, ricegrass, and others). Fortu-
nately the index is cross-referenced by
widely used common names and taxonom-
ic synonyms. Besides, if a gardener can
learn to recognize "common" names like
Chrysanthemum, Forsythia, and Geranium
(all Latin genus names too), they can
expand their vocabulary with a few more
native scientific names! The book con-
cludes with several appendices depicting
sample precipitation tables, examples of
designing plant beds, and tables comparing
various attributes of the species deseribed
previously.

Growing Native Plants of the Rocky
Mountain Area is currently available in
printed form for conventional bibliophiles,
or as a cd-rom using Microsoft Word for
the techno-savvy or bargain-hunter, requir-
ing Adobe Acrobat to read. Me, I'll stick
with the printed version and read it in the
eomfort of a hammoek and enjoy the soli-
tude of being away from the computer
while I'm planning for my native garden-
in-progress.

Note; For a limited time, individuals inter-
ested in purchasing the book version of
Growing Natives can do so directly from
the Dorns for $50 (postage included)
through Mountain West Environmental
Services (contact Bob Dorn at lin-
glebird(^yahoo.com for details).

Thanks to the Wyoming NPS for allowing
the re-printing of this article.

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Welcome New Members

Thomas Bates

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This is the first comprehensive work on Colorado bryophytes,
401 mosses and 106 liverworts and hornworts, compared to 292
(mosses only) reported in Weber (1973), Guide to the Mosses of
Colorado. This is the result of a decade of concentrated field and
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Colorado has been a blind spot in the map of North American
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The book contains an introduction outlining the history of bry-
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Since this is a fairly technical book, we now are beginning to
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Unfortunately, history is not the only thing alive and well at Boggsville. Tamarisk is a water robbing and habitat threatening invasive
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The Colorado Native Plant Society is a non-
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CALENDAR 2006 - 2CG7

WORKSHOPS

October 1 3& 1 4 Potentillas of Colorado
November I O&l ITour of Flowering Plants
December 1 &2 Plants of the Four Corners
January 1 2& 1 3 Intro to Asteraceae
February 9& 1 0 Mints of C olorado
April 12&13 Pestemons

May3&4 Plant Terminology

June 27, 28,29 Carex

CHAPTER PROGRAMS

BOULDER CHAPTER

October 1 1 Fens and Fen Plants of the Rocky Mountains

November 8 Medicines of Colorado Plants

December 1 3 America’s Lost Landscape

January 1 0 Adapting Native Plants for the Garden Home

February 14 No meeting

March 1 3 Ten Years of Restoring Boulder’s Wildlands

April 10 TBA

May 8 Native Plant Hike and Picnic

NORTHERN COLOARO CHAPTER

October 3 Celastraceae and Friends from Madagascar

November 7 Fens and Fen Plants of the Rocky Mountains

METRO-DENVER CHAPTER

September 25
October 30
December 1 1
January 22
February 26
March 25
April 22
May 27

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