Crested Butte is the Wildflower Capital of Colorado. The breadth and spread of the flowers is magical peaking at different elevations with different flowers throughout the summer.
Red Columbine
Jacob’s Ladder
Willowherb
Fairy Slipper - Calypso Orchid
Lanceleaf Spring Beauty
Fendler’s Meadowrue
Spotted Saxifrage
Pink, Sticky Geranium
Shooting Star
Fringed Parnassia
Sticky Cinquefoil
Alpine Bistort
Larkspur
Prairie Smoke
Columbines
Rosy Pussytoes
Nodding Ragwort
Mule’s Ear Sunflowers
Silver Lupines, Snodgrass Area
Monkeyflower
Whipple’s Penstemon
Wyoming Paint Brush and Silver Lupines
Bottle Gentian. Paradise to Yule Pass Trail
Artic Gentian
Oregon Grape
Scarlet Gilia
Valerian
Corydalis
Chickory, Scarp Ridge
Parrot’s Beak
Pasque Flower
Wyoming Paintbrush
Brook Saxifrage
Brook Saxifrage
Penstemon
Cut-Leaf Anemone
White Checker Mallow
Sticky Cinquefoil
Giant Lousewort
Marsh Marigold
Queen’s Crown
Star Gentian
Valerian
Larspur
Green Gentian (Monument Plant)
Sugar Bowl
Monkshood
Osha
Rayless Coneflower
Blue Flax
Death Camas
Harebells
Curlyhead Goldenweed
Monkshood
Forget-Me-Not
Yellow Stonecrop
Yellow Stonecrop
Drummond’s Rockcress
Drummond’s Rockcress
Sandwort
Western Paintbrush
Mouse-ear Chickweed
Red-Root Buckwheat
Buckwheat
Purple Fringe Phacelia
Longstalk Starwort
Showy Fleabane flower emerging
Pink Wintergreen
Glacier Lily
Penstemon
Chime Bells
Bulbous Woodland Star
Elephant’s Head
Columbines
Fireweed
Rose Top Bistort
Whiteflower Peavine
Ballhead Waterleaf
Orange Agoseris
Autumn, Dwarf Gentian
Rocky Mtn Fringed Gentian
Flox
Silvery Lupine
Nodding Ragwort
Canadian White Violet
Western Wallflower
Mariposa (Gunnison) Lilly with ornate beetle
Fendler’s Waterleaf
Queen’s Crown
Blue Violet
Creeping Sibaldia
Fireweed
Columbine
Hyssop
Western Wallflower
Penstemon
Geranium
Thistle
Pasqueflower
Salsify
