Colorado
Native plants in Boulder
532 plants are genuinely native to this area — not merely able to survive here. They are grouped below by what they do in a garden, from canopy trees down to groundcovers.
Best represented here: perennials (308), grasses (121), shrubs (103) · 147 of them need no watering beyond Boulder’s own rainfall
Showing 83 plants · 449 more are native here but not in the catalog yet
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Trees13
Canopy and structureShrubs18
Backbone plantingGrasses14
Movement and texturePerennials42
Seasonal colourFerns2
Shade and dampSucculents1
Dry and architecturalMore of Colorado
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