Colorado
Native plants in Fort Collins
414 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 (242), grasses (96), shrubs (85) · 86 of them need no watering beyond Fort Collins’s own rainfall
Showing 68 plants · 346 more are native here but not in the catalog yet
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Trees11
Canopy and structureShrubs16
Backbone plantingGrasses12
Movement and texturePerennials35
Seasonal colourFerns1
Shade and dampSucculents1
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