A male Monarch butterfly with wings outspread on an orange cosmos flower, looking fine.
Happy Saturday! No Monarchs but me! #fallback to September 29.
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Clouds in a blue sky above willow lined river
South Platte at the Fairplay Beach 🌿
One last #FallBack to Sep. 21, spring is here!
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Yellow cactus spines in a ball
Pediocactus simpsonii, our Mountain Ball Cactus, looking like a pincushion on Green Mountain #nativeplants
#Fallback to Sep. 21 🌿
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Dark purple berries on red stems
Phytolacca americana, the nonnative American Pokeweed, fruiting in City Park Denver. Never thought I'd see this notorious plant naturalized here.
#Fallback to Sep. 19 🌿
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Small globose clusters of yellow rayless flowers
Solidago nemoralis, our Field Goldenrod, blooming near Rabbit Mountain #nativeplants
#FallbackFlowers #Fallback to Sep. 18 🌿
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Me-I don't have any green birds for St. Partick's Day. Remembers Ruby-throated Hummingbirds... #FallBack to March 17, 2025 🪶
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A large female Diana Fritillary butterfly sits on an orange cosmos with wings folded back. The underside of her wings and body is a warm shimmery orange-brown. The top wing has a patch of icy blue tumbling blocks on a black background.
The Diana butterfly with her wings outspread on white Tall Boneset flowers. The top wings are black with a white design of line and dots along the edge that look like stitching. The bottom wings are navy blue with rectangular cells of bright blue along the bottom edge, each accented with one black dot.
Another view of the butterfly from the side, upside-down on a Tall Thistle flower. This butterfly spends a lot of time upside-down.
Another view of the Diana with her wings spread, facing down. The male of this species is brown with golden orange designs on the wings, but I have never seen one. Speyeria diana. Oklahoma Northern Crosstimbers ecoregion 29a, September 2025.
Hàppy St. Patrick's Day! The Diana Fritillary that visited me last summer. Their caterpillars feed on native violets and sleep under them in the leaf litter all winter. #Fallback to September 17. #butterflies
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Pale purplish flowers on spiny red-striped stems
Salsola tragus, the nonnative Prickly Russian Thistle, blooming at Rocky Mountain Arsenal Wildlife Refuge. Not listed as a CO noxious weed, but invasive. These are the tumbleweeds you see blowing around when they dry out.
#FallBackFlowers #Fallback to Sep. 16 🌿
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Sky blue flowers with large lower lips
Salvia azurea var. grandiflora, our Blue Sage, blooming at Rocky Mountain Arsenal Wildlife Refuge #nativeplants
#FallBackFlowers #FallBack to Sep. 16 🌿
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Bright yellow flowers and green foliage
Euthamia occidentalis, our Western Goldenrod, blooming at Two Creek Open Space #nativeplants
#FallBackFlowers #FallBack to Sep. 14 🌿
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Tiny green leaves among larger but still tiny leaves many of which have dinky aphids on them
Wolffia borealis, our Dotted Watermeal, dwarted by the already tiny Lemna (Duckweed) in a Wheat Ridge pond. Wolffia are the smallest flowering plants on the planet. #nativeplants
#Fallback to Sep. 13
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Pinkish purple flowers in an inflorescence
Stachys pilosa, our Prairie Woundwart, blooming south of Boulder in a ditch #nativeplants
#FallbackFlowers #Fallback to Sep. 13 🌿
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Yellow five-petal flowers and red buds
Hypericum majus, our uncommon Greater St. John's-Wort, blooming east of East Boulder Rec. Center #nativeplants
#FallBackFlowers #FallBack to Sep. 12 🌿
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White fruits in a globose cluster
Picradeniopsis multiflora, our Many-flowered Bahia, fruiting in Phantom Canyon #nativeplants
#FallBackFlowers #FallBack to Sep. 11 🌿
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Orange and black beetles on bright yellow goldenrod
Goldenrod (Solidago) blooming near Ramah SWA with Colorado Soldier Beetles (Chauliognathus basalis) #nativeplants
#FallBackFlowers #FallBack to Sep. 10 🌿
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White star-shaped flower with five lobes, an unopened bud rises beside it
Lomatogonium rotatum, our uncommon Marsh Felwort, blooming along the South Platte near Garo #nativeplants
#FallBackFlowers #FallBack to Sep. 9 🌿
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Deep blue four-lobed flower with white throat and white pistil. The lobes are fringed.
Cluster of deep blue fringed flowers with a sheen to their fringed petals
Three blue fringed flowers with white throats
Gentianopsis thermalis, our Rocky Mountain Fringed Gentian, blooming along the South Platte near Garo #nativeplants
#FallBackFlowers #FallBack to Sep. 9 🌿
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Five-lobed white flower
Four-lobed white flower
Five-lobed white flower
Five-lobed white flower
Lomatogonium rotatum, our uncommon Marsh Felwort, blooming along the South Platte near Garo #nativeplants
#FallBackFlowers #FallBack to Sep. 9 🌿
The blooms will continue until the world improves
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Did you remember to change your clocks?
#DaylightSavings
#DaylightSavingsTime
#SpringForward
#FallBack
#TimeChange
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AHOY THERE!
NAUTICAL TIMEKEEPING, IMPORTANT TO ALL SAILORS, IS BASED ON GREENWICH MEAN TIME AS DEFINED BY THE GREENWICH MERIDIAN.
WSFERRYS IS PLEASED TO BE A SPONSOR OF THE TWICE ANNUAL RESETTING OF STONEHENGE TO SUPPORT NAUTICAL DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME SINCE 1952.
#SPRINGFORWARD #FALLBACK
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Purple flowers with long red filaments and light orange anthers
Amorpha canescens, our Lead Plant, blooming at Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refugee #nativeplants
#FallBackFlowers #FallBack to Sep. 7 🌿
Amorpha means ‘without form’ since this genus’ flowers have only one petal, unlike most "pea-shaped" flowers, missing the wing and keel petals.
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Path thru trees down a mountain under BlueSky
Hiking down the Greenman trail
#Fallback to Sep. 6 #ForestFriday
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A house finch with a deep red had and chest was having a quiet afternoon in a leafy maple tree in september
A vibrant Mr House Finch was wondering why the little hummers had taken over his tree. #FallBack to September 6 🪶
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Pointy ternate fronds on a purple stem
Pellaea wrightiana, our uncommon Wright's Cliffbrake, thriving on a Boulder cliffside #nativeplants #FallBack to Sep. 6 🌿
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Sky blue flowers with three lobes on the lower lip and two lobes above
Lobelia siphilitica var. ludoviciana, our uncommon Great Blue Lobelia, blooming in a ditch southwest of the Bobolink trailhead #nativeplants
#FallBackFlowers #FallBack to Sep. 6 🌿
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Desolation from the Calwood Fire at Heil Valley Ranch Open Space
Black skeletons of trees in the desolation of the Calwood Fire at Heil Valley Ranch Open Space 🔥 🌿 🔥 #FallBack to Sep. 5
Yesterday seven acres burned here in the Calwood Fire burn scar: www.denver7.com/news/wildfir...
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Hiker on a dirt road next to some sunflowers. Pic courtesy of Sue D.
Lord, I was born a ramblin' man
Tryin' to make some IDs and doin' the best I can
And when it's time for nature
I hope you'll understand
That I was born a ramblin' man
#FallBackFlowers #FallBack to Sep. 5 🌿
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Purple flowers growing on shale, burnt trees in background
Liatris punctata, our native Dotted Blazingstar, blooming at Heil Valley Ranch Open Space in the area burned by the October 2020 Calwood Fire #nativeplants
#FallBackFlowers #FallBack to Sep. 5 🌿
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Deep blue five-lobed flowers with black-dotted throats
Gentiana parryi, our Parry's Gentian, blooming above the East Portal #nativeplants
#FallBackFlowers #FallBack to Sep. 5 🌿
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