~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 slpendens. 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.

Dr. Mary L. Dubler

Mary has solved these mysteries:

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 and in the text on our two gumweed species on the website. Go to the Yellows page 2 and Yellows page 3.

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!