Transcript Plains or Broadleaf Cottonwood

Plains or Broadleaf Cottonwood
*Populus sargentii
The Plains or broadleaf cottonwood is also the largest broadleaf tree of
Colorado, New Mexico, and Wyoming. This tree grows from the eastern
plains to 6500 feet in elevation, and possibly higher in canyons of the
eastern slope of Colorado.
Narrowleaf Cottonwood
Populus angustifolia
The Narrowleaf can grow to 60 feet in height and 3 feet trunk diameter, but
rarely is more than 2 feet in diameter. The branches tend to be more erect
than the spreading thick limbs of the Plains cottonwood. The branches of the
Narrowleaf cottonwood are more slender than those of Plains cottonwood,
often with smooth pale bark, while the Plains cottonwood has gray furrowed
bark right out to the twigs.
The Quaking Aspen of the Rocky Mountains
Populus tremuloides
Aspen is the distinctive slender broadleaf
tree of the Rocky Mountain mountain
forests, renowned for its golden autumn
foliage. It grows in locations from 6500
to 11000 feet in elevation, usually in
groves, often in moist sites, and can
reach treeline. Aspen sprouts will shoot
up from roots quickly and vigorously in
cut or burned areas, and Aspen is one of
the important pioneer species in the
Rocky Mountains.
Siberian elm (Ulmus pumila) - native to Central Asia, eastern
Siberia, Mongolia, Xizang (Tibet), northern China, India (northern Kashmir) and
Korea. The Siberian Elm is usually a small to medium-sized, often bushy, tree
growing to 10–20 metres (33–66 ft) tall, with a trunk up to 80 centimetres
(31 in) d.b.h. [4] The leaves are deciduous in cold areas, but semi-evergreen in
warmer climates, < 7 cm long and < 3 cm broad, with an oblique base and a
coarsely serrated margin, changing from dark green to yellow in autumn.
Ponderosa Pine
Pinus ponderosa
Ponderosa pine is one of the
best-known trees of the
American West, and covers a
more extensive area than any
other American cone-bearing
tree.
Pinyon pine
Pinus edulis
Pinyon-juniper woodlands are one of the most common forests in the
arid west. Widespread across parts of Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona,
Utah, Nevada, and California, the pinyon - juniper woodlands cover
150,000 square miles, an area larger than the state of Colorado
Scotch Pine (Pinus sylvestris)
Also called Scots pine, is an introduced species in North America, brought here from
Europe probably in colonial days. Although it is used for both pulpwood and sawlogs,
its principal value in the United States appears to be as a Christmas tree, as an
ornamental, and for erosion control. Needles are blue-green, and in bundles of two
and about 2.5 – 5 cm long.
Red Cedar, Eastern Juniper, Red Juniper -Juniperus virginiana
Rocky Mountain Juniper is a very
hardy, fast growing upright juniper
with a very pyramidal, columnar
growth habit. Withstands drought &
windy conditions better than most
upright junipers.
Sandbar Willow
It is a deciduous shrub
reaching 4–7 meters in
height, spreading by root
sprouts to form dense clonal
colonies. The leaves are
narrow lanceolate, 4–12 cm
long and 2–10 mm broad,
green, to grayish with silky
white hairs at least when
young; the margin is entire
or with a few irregular,
widely spaced small teeth.
Willows always occur near or
in water and thus are an
important riparian species.
Russian Olive
Elaeagnus angustifolia
It is a usually thorny shrub or small tree growing to 5-7 m in
height. Its stems, buds, and leaves have a dense covering of
silvery to rusty scales. The leaves are alternate, lanceolate, 4-9
cm long and 1-2.5 cm broad, with a smooth margin
Locust
Gleditsia triacanthos
Virginia Creeper
Parthenocissus quinquefolia
Virginia creeper or five-leaved
ivy (Parthenocissus quinquefolia) is
a woody vine native to eastern and
central North America, in
southeastern Canada, the eastern
and central United States. It is an
exotic species in Colorado.
sourberry, skunkbush, and three-leaf sumac - Rhus trilobata
It is native to the western half of Canada and the Western United States, from the Great
Plains to California and south through Arizona extending into northern Mexico. It can be
found from deserts to mountain peaks up to about 7,000 feet (2,100 m) in elevation.
Asteraceae-the sunflower family
Sunflower
Erigeron
sp.
The structure commonly referred to as the
flower head is a agglomeration of many small
flowers.
Butter-and-eggs (Linaria vulgaris)
is a species of toadflax (Linaria), native to most of Europe and northern
Asia, from the United Kingdom south to Spain in the west, and east to
eastern Siberia and western China.[4][5] It has also been introduced and
is now common in North America
Woolly or Common Mullein
Verbascum
thapsus
It is a hairy biennial plant that can grow to 2 m or more tall. Its small
yellow flowers are densely grouped on the tall stem, which bolts from
a large rosette of leaves. It grows in a wide variety of habitats, but
prefers well-lit disturbed soils, where it can appear soon after the
ground receives light, from long-lived seeds that persist in the soil
seed bank.
Thistle
Thistle is the common name of a group of flowering plants
characterised by leaves with sharp prickles on the margins,
mostly in the plant family Asteraceae
Prickly pear
(Opuntia phaeacantha) -
Prickly pears typically grow with
flat, rounded cladodes (also called platyclades) armed with two kinds of spines; large, smooth,
fixed spines and small, hairlike prickles called glochids, that easily penetrate skin and detach
from the plant. Many types of prickly pears grow into dense, tangled structures.
Barrel cactus (Echinocactus)
Brome Grass ( Bromus sp.)
Bromus (means Oats) is a large genus of the grass family (Poaceae). Estimates in the
scientific literature of the number of species have ranged from 100 to 400, but plant
taxonomists currently recognize around 160–170 species. They are commonly known as
bromes, brome grasses, cheat grasses or chess grasses.
Blue Grama Grass
(Bouteloua gracilis)
a long-lived, warm-season, C4 perennial grass, native to North America. It is
most commonly found from Alberta, Canada, east to Manitoba and south
across the Rocky Mountains, Great Plains, and U.S. Midwest states to Mexico.
Blue grama accounts for most of the net primary productivity in the
shortgrass prairie of the central and southern Great Plains. It is a green or
greyish, low-growing, drought-tolerant grass with limited maintenance
Animals
Red-tailed hawk –
Crow -
Corvus sp.
Magpie –
Pica hudsonia
Buteo jamaicensis
English Sparrow –
American robin –
Turdus migratorius
Passer domesticus
House Finch –
Carpodacus mexicanus
Animals
Rabbit –
Lepus curpaeums
Mule Deer-
Odecoileus hemionus
Racoon –
Procyon lotor
Red Fox –
Vulpes vulpes
Field Mouse –
Mus musculus
Honey Bee –
Apis dorsata
Animals
Water strider
Dragonfly
aphids