Phantom Canyon Road, Gold Belt National Scenic Byway, Colorado, August 26, 2004
Cleome serrulata (Rocky Mountain Beeweed, Rocky Mountain Beeplant, Bee Spiderflower, stinking clover, Navajo spinach) is a species of Cleome, native to western North America from southern British Columbia, east to Minnesota and Illinois, and south to New Mexico and northernmost California. It is also naturalized further east in North America. (Wikipedia)
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Great colour in this shot Mike. I see so many different plants when I’m out and about but rarely do I know their names. Seems you could study for a long time before you were familiar with the different species of plants.
Thanks. The funny thing on this one is that, 3 years after I took this picture, we had pulled over for a short break on a lonely highway in northwest Nebraska and I took a picture there of what I later found out to be a Rocky Mountain Beeplant. So this time, when I went back through all of the 2004 pictures, I knew what this was. Unfortunately, it’s often very, very difficult to identify wildflowers. I have several site bookmarked for Colorado wildflowers, but, even the, there are several that I just had to title as “wildflower” in the photo gallery.
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