A drawing of Marsh Marigolds made with copic markers. There are four white flowers made of sepals only, with no real petals. The centers of the flowers are dotted with clusters of many bright yellow stamens. The leaves are broad and bright green, lighter along the veins. The flowers are growing against a pinkish beige rock and green-brown moss in a marshy basin.

100 days of CO native plants

(68/100) 🌼 Caltha leptosepala 🌼
family: Ranunculaceae (buttercup)

#MarshMarigold is a bright and delightful perennial forb that blooms in Colorado #SubalpineWillowCarrs in early spring.

Their heart-shaped leaves are eaten by elk. 🦌

www.fs.usda.gov/wildflowers/...

Subalpine Willow Carrs - Colorado Native Plant Society learn about the four major willow carrs plant communities growing in the Colorado Rocky Mountains: shrubs, sedges, grasses and flowering herbs

Check out the Colorado Native Plant Society website for more information about #SubalpineWillowCarrs and the #NativePlants that grow in them:

conps.org/project/suba...

A bound sketchbook is open to a six by twelve inch drawing of a Colorado subalpine willow carr plant community. In the center of the frame, a beaver swims across a pond carrying willow branches in its mouth. On the left, there is a tangle of branching willow shrub; its leaves are bright green on top and a pale gray-green on bottom. Beside the willow along the pond’s edge grows beaked sedge, with yellow-green spike seedheads. At the bottom, also along the pond’s edge, there are streamside bluebells. On the right side of the pond there are two species of grass, common names bluejoint and tufted hairgrass.

100 days of CO native plants

Featured plant community:
#Salixmonticola / #Carexutriculata Wet Shrubland

63: Salix monticola
64: Carex utriculata
65: Deschampsia caespitosa
66: Calamagrostis canadensis
67: Mertensia ciliata

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#SubalpineWillowCarrs are often found near #beaver ponds.