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The fascinating world of plants.
The juice of one makes invisible ink. Another spring-releases it seeds at a force greater than the equivalent lift-off of a rocket launching into space. Some have toxic sap that beggars in old England applied to their skin to make themselves look pathetic. Many plants were/are used by Native Americans in a myriad of interesting ways … including witchcraft and love-medicines! Some plants are toxic in one form yet beneficial in another. We never know when we find a new species what intriguing information there is to learn about it - and share on this website.
Look for these symbols on our latin name index for this kind of information about the plants we have identified in our wanders.
Link Highlight: The Colo Extension website is an excellent source of information about plant life, and much more, in Colorado. Click the logo and LEARN.
Welcome to this sharing of wildflower identification, a hobby offering deep enrichment of our lives. The arrangement of blooms by color has been of great assistance to us, as amateur hobbyists, in the identification of wildflowers. This is the organizational basis of the galleries. Please feel free to eMail your feedback, suggestions, corrections, or questions. It is our pleasure to share our photographs in the hope that wildflower identification may spark your interest and enhance your joy in nature, as it so richly has done for us.
Mark Lee Dixon & Darice Susan Dixon.
The western region of the United States encompasses a huge area. Many of the plants represented in this website have been sighted in Oregon and Washington. In some cases there may be blooms shown here from Canada. These areas have been explored by us exclusively to date simply based on proximity. In 2008 we will be presenting specimens from Colorado, Wyoming and adjacent states since we now live in this area. However, our interest extends much farther! The regions map here represents the area we are interested in learning and sharing about today, and in the future.
Thank you, AMY JO JONES, for the great images of Musk Thistle!
See Amy's excellent photographs taken on June 3, 2010 at Boomer Lake - Stillwater Oklahoma - here.
Professor of Entomology Department of Bioagricultural Sciences and
Pest Management at Colorado State University, for his assistance in Preying Mantis identification.
~Thank You~
Ann Henson
She identified one of our Red-Orange plants, Spotted Coralroot Corallorhiza maculata. Ann is the Secretary of the Colorado Native Plant Society and Workshop Committe Chairwoman.
Loraine Yeatts
Loraine identified our specimen, Showy Locoweed Oxytropis slependens. See her excellent slideshow contributions on the Colorado Native Plant Society website. She is a field botanist and taxonomist with the Denver Botanic Gardens, Kathryn Kalmbach Herbarium.
She is a fellow wildflower enthusiast who has recently published her collection of wildflower photographs online. Her fun website, Wildflowers of Colorado, includes photographs of flowers she has been snapping since 1995. Mary is a veterinarian specializing in equine internal medicine. She has shared some interesting information with us on the effects of gumweed ingestion by horses. See her contribution here.
Betty Schneider
A warm thanks to Betty for her assistance with the identification of Shadscale Saltbush Atriplex confertifolia. Betty is married to Al Schneider. She took the time to answer our questions while Al was away. Al's excellent website, Southwest Colorado Wildflowers, has been of great use and interest to us in our pursuit of learning about our marvelous world of plants. Take a visit and enjoy Al's photography, glossary and workshop links. You will learn alot!
Last updated: July 29, 2010
Copyright 2007- 2010. All rights reserved. Mark L. & Darice S. Dixon
* can not take any responsibility for any adverse effects from the use of plants. Always seek advice from an accredited professional before using any plant medicinally or for food.If self-testing use very small quantities and be alert for any adverse effects.
for this kind of information about the plants we have identified in our wanders.
