Big Sagebrush Shrub
The Big Sagebrush shrub is well adapted to the dry plains. It is recognized in most seasons by its silver-white leaves and the twisted woody stems.
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Plants
Great Plains Yucca
The Great Plains Yucca plant is easily recognized by its stiff, sword shaped leaves that all originate at the base of the plant in a rosette. Its white flowers are on tall stalks and the dry flowers remain throughout the rest of the year.
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American Plum Shrub
The American Plum can grow in either small tree or shrub form. It has fragrant white blooms in the spring, edible plums in the summer and red leaves in the fall.
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Golden Currant Shrub
The Golden Currant shrub can grow up to 9 feet tall and 3 to 5 feet across, growing best along streams and in open woods. In the spring, they have small golden flowers.
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Common Rabbitbrush Shrub
The Common Rabbitbrush shrub is a beautiful gold shrub which gets its name by providing a good spot for rabbits to hide. It is recognized in most seasons by its globe shape dotting the dry landscape.
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Sandbar Willow Shrub
Sandbar Willow shrubs grow along the banks of streams and on floodplains in multi-stemmed thickets, with branches up to 8 feet tall.
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Russian Olive Trees
Russian Olive trees are considered invasive plants in Colorado. They are easily recognized by thin, silvery leaves and thorns on the branches coming out next to the leaf stalks.
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Green Ash Trees
Green Ash trees are fast-growing tall trees which turn gold in the fall. They can be recognized by the X pattern on the bark and the branches opposite each other.
Rocky Mountain Juniper Trees
Rocky Mountain Juniper trees are conifer trees with scale-like leaves that stay on year-round. They are very hardy and adapted to low moisture and dry clay conditions.
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The Importance of Native Plants
Native Plants are those plants that have evolved to live in a certain place and are important to the ecosystem. Here is a collection of Native Plants at Willow Spring Open Space, along with some noxious weeds found there.
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