Susan Panjabi
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[2017].
Description
Pagosa bladderpod (Physaria pruinosa=Lesquerella pruinosa) is a small, rosette-forming, yellow-flowered plant in the Brassicaceae (Mustard Family) that is known only from two counties in southern Colorado and one county in northern New Mexico. Avoiding or minimizing impacts to this species during road maintenance activities will effectively help to conserve its habitat and is unlikely to confer substantial impacts on road maintenance goals and projects....
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Pub. Date
[2014].
Description
Gunnison milkvetch (Astragalus anisus) is a small plant in the Fabaceae (Pea Family) that is known only from the Gunnison Basin in Gunnison and Saguache counties, Colorado, and is considered to be imperiled at a global and state level. Avoiding or minimizing impacts to this species during road maintenance will effectively help to conserve its habitat and is unlikely to confer substantial impacts on road maintenance goals and projects.
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Pub. Date
[2014].
Description
Rollins' twinpod (Physaria rollinsii) is a small plant in the Brassicaceae (Mustard Family) that is known only from west central Colorado in Gunnison and Mesa counties, Colorado, and is considered to be imperiled at a global and state level. One of the biggest conservation issues for this imperiled plant species is the lack of awareness of its existence and status. Avoiding or minimizing impacts to this species during road maintenance activities...
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Pub. Date
[2014].
Description
Good-neighbor bladderpod (Physaria vicina) is a small plant in the Brassicaceae (Mustard Family) that is known only from southwestern Colorado in Montrose and Ouray counties, and is considered to be imperiled at a global and state level. One of the biggest conservation issues for this imperiled plant species is the lack of awareness of its existence and status. Avoiding or minimizing impacts to this species during road maintenance activities will...
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Pub. Date
[2014].
Description
Rabbit Ears gilia (Ipomopsis aggregata ssp. weberi) is a tall herbaceous plant in the Polemoniaceae (Phlox Family) that is known from north central Colorado in Grand, Jackson, and Routt counties, and is also found in northern Idaho and south central Wyoming and is considered to be imperiled at a global and state level. One of the biggest conservation issues for this imperiled plant species is the lack of awareness of its existence and status. Avoiding...
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Pub. Date
[2017].
Description
Cushion bladderpod (Physaria pulvinata) is a low, compact plant in the Brassicaceae (Mustard Family) It is densely matted and hairy, less than 3 dm across with 4-petaled yellow flowers. It is known from widely scattered outcrops of grayish Mancos shale in San Miguel and Dolores counties, and is considered to be imperiled at a global and state level. One of the biggest conservation issues for this imperiled plant species is the lack of awareness of...
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Pub. Date
[2014].
Description
Colorado green gentian (Frasera coloradensis) is a small plant in the Gentianaceae (Gentian Family) that is known only from the southeastern Colorado in Baca, Bent, Prowers, and Las Animas counties and is considered to be imperiled at a global and state level. One of the biggest conservation issues for this imperiled plant species is the lack of awareness of its existence and status. Avoiding or minimizing impacts to this species during road maintenance...
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Pub. Date
[2014].
Description
DeBeque milkvetch (Astragalus debequaeus) is a small plant in the Fabaceae (Pea Family) that is known only from the Colorado River Valley in Delta, Garfield and Mesa counties, Colorado and is considered to be imperiled at a global and state level. One of the biggest conservation issues for this imperiled plant species is the lack of awareness of its existence and status. Avoiding or minimizing impacts to this species during road maintenance activities...
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Pub. Date
[2017].
Description
Round-leaf four o'clock (Oxybaphus rotundifolius) is a medium-tall plant in the Nyctaginaceae (Four o'clock Family) that is restricted to barren shale outcrops of the Smoky Hill Member of the Niobrara Formation in sparse shrublands or woodlands and is considered to be imperiled at a global and state level. One of the biggest conservation issues for this imperiled plant species is the lack of awareness of its existence and status. Avoiding or minimizing...
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Pub. Date
[2014].
Description
Grand Mesa penstemon (Penstemon mensarum) is a tall, dark-blue-flowered plant in the Scrophulariaceae (Figwort Family) that is known only from the vicinity of Grand Mesa in Gunnison, Delta, Mesa, and Pitkin counties, Colorado. This distinctive species is not known from anywhere else in the world, and is considered to be imperiled at a global and state level. One of the biggest conservation issues for this imperiled plant species is the lack of awareness...
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Pub. Date
[2017].
Description
Roan Cliffs blazing star (Nuttallia rhizomata) is a low, sprawling, rhizomatous plant with bright yellow flowers with five petals. This species is known only from Garfield County in Colorado, and nowhere else in the world. and is considered to be imperiled at a global and state level. One of the biggest conservation issues for this imperiled plant species is the lack of awareness of its existence and status. Avoiding or minimizing impacts to this...
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Pub. Date
[2014].
Description
Arkansas Canyon stickleaf (Nuttallia densa) is a small, yellow-flowered, subshrub in the Loasaceae (Blazingstar Family) that is known only from the Upper Arkansas River Basin in Fremont and Chaffee counties, Colorado, and is considered to be imperiled at a global and state level. One of the biggest conservation issues for this imperiled plant species is the lack of awareness of its existence and status. Avoiding or minimizing impacts to this species...
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Pub. Date
[2017].
Description
Golden blazing is a tall plant, with thick stems, and attractive, 10-petaled bright yellow flowers. Golden blazing star is found primarily on the Smoky Hill member of the Niobrara shale, in the middle Arkansas Valley, in Fremont and Pueblo counties, Colorado, and nowhere else in the world. Golden blazing star is considered to be imperiled at a global and state level. One of the biggest conservation issues for this imperiled plant species is the lack...