Rocky Mountain Wildflowers — Snow Buttercup
Pasqueflowers are Blooming as well as other early Wildflowers---Spring is Beginning in the Rocky Mountains.
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Pasqueflowers, Marsh Marigold, Snow Buttercups, and Avalanche Lillies are some of the first wildflowers to appear in Spring in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.
Early Wildflowers Spring up with the Melting Snow in Colorado’s High Country.
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Snow and ice melting with the warming early summer sun in the upper mountain meadows provide nourishing water for the slowly sprouting alpine wildflowers. Soon the first flowers appear---Globeflowers with divided leaves, Marsh Marigold with heart-shaped leaves, and yellow Snow Buttercups with stringy leaves. The flowers below were photographed by Bernie Nagy above Emma Lake near Alma, Colorado. When the first hikers arrive to climb Colorado’s Rocky Mountain peaks, they will find a wide variety of much smaller and tiny subalpine species blooming in addition. In earlier times from 1887 to 1918, the Colorado Midland Railroad transported...