United StatesHigh Country Apps is proud to support the Colorado Native Plant Society (www.conps.org) through donations and providing the Colorado Rocky Mountain Wildflowers app for their educational and advocacy work. Colorado Rocky Mountain Wildflowers presents more than 500 wildflowers, shrubs, trees, and ferns of the Colorado Rockies and Greater Rocky Mountain Area. Designed for expert and beginner alike, this guide presents each species in a clear, informative format that provides photos and illustrations of the plant, an easily understood description, distinctive field marks, preferred habitats, and tidbits on the plant’s ecology and cultural use. An innovative, easy-to-use key allows the user to select flower color, leaf type, and other characteristics to quickly identify unknown plants. You are on a hike, look down and see a flower with yellow petals and opposite leaves but don’t know its name. It could be tall and thorny, sticky with black berries, sweet-smelling with square stems. Just select what you do know on the app and all plants matching your description will be shown. Photographs and information used by the app are stored locally, making the app available to use with or without a data connection. The app covers the Colorado Rocky Mountains from the foothills to the alpine zone and although we show you a few plants found exclusively in Colorado, the vast majority of the plants shown can also be found through the Rockies of Montana, Wyoming, and New Mexico. We have been careful to include the most abundant and visible plants and also those less common but found in unusual habitats, such as, wetlands, ponds, and rocky slopes. We have also chosen species from various altitudes, from 85 families and 200 genera, and from all geographic locations -- East Slope, West Slope, and the mountains between. We hope this app increases your enthusiasm for the plants that give us all life and inspiration. Revel in the wildflowers and infect others with your love of the land.
Fantastic, Packed with Information
Moving to a new area in Colorado, this app is helping me tremendously identify and become at home with the local native plants. As well, I’m able to quickly determine invasive non-natives that I can remove right away. Thank you for creating such a wonderful resource.
United StatesMissing flowers
I bought this app to identify flowers in Crested Butte last week. Crested Butte is the "Wildflower Capital of Colorado." None of the flowers in the field were even on the app. Otherwise, it could be prettier but I'd be happy with it if it was simply comprehensive.
United StatesI thought it would be better...
Pay 10 smackers for a wildflower guide? It had be better than the free ones you can get for california and oregon. It’s not and it’s interface is a worse version of the free ones. I downloaded to identify a thistle I ran into and it didn’t have many of the possible thistles in the database! I just googled it! it’s a plumeless! At least add all the noxious weeds.
United StatesPlease fix search function
I tested the app out by searching for a blanketflower. When I chose the characteristics I could only choose one color and not multiples. I could not find it by choosing orange or red. I was only able to find this flower when choosing yellow. Many of the gaillardia’s I see are mostly red or orange. It would be really nice if I could choose both colors, but the app won’t allow that. Many Colorado flowers, like the columbine and blanket flower, have more than one color. Even in the tidbit description multiple color characteristics are chosen. The browse section is nice but the search function doesn’t work well.
United StatesLove this
It works great so far, first four plants I tried to ID gave me the match! Simple interface, i will use this a lot
United StatesBest I can find that covers my area
I live in the mountains of north central AZ. Excellent pick by characteristics app. I can get close to the scientific name/ family of plant but not exactly the one I'm looking at. Recommend to anyone in the Four Corners Area.
United StatesAccurate App!
I have only used this app once but of the four different flowers I searched for it had all four. It has multiple pics of each flower which is great to better identify that you have an accurate match. As a photographer I was always interested in more info on the flowers I was shooting and this makes it extremely easy to locate them and learn more about them. It also has a "Favorite" feature so I can log all the plants I have photographed.
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