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Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

Chapter 47: Transcriber’s Notes
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This concise handbook presents a natural-history guide to a high-altitude mountain park, outlining the geologic origins and the sculpting role of glaciers. It describes plant communities by elevation—from lower montane forests through mid-elevation belts to alpine tundra—highlighting plant adaptations and community structure. The text surveys animal life, organized into hoofed mammals, predators, small mammals, birds, and cold-blooded vertebrates, and offers practical guidance for observing wildlife. It also covers climate and visitor seasons, suggests automobile and trail trips, summarizes recreational regulations, and lists further readings and appendices for mammal and bird observation.

APPENDIX C—COMMON AND SCIENTIFIC NAMES OF PLANTS

This list of common names and their scientific (Latin) equivalents includes only those plants that are mentioned in the text. With minor exceptions, authority for the scientific names of all plants and for the common names of all plants except trees is the second edition (1942) of Standardized Plant Names, edited by Harlan P. Kelsey and William A. Dayton. Authority for common names of trees is Check List of Native and Naturalized Trees of the United States (Including Alaska), by Elbert L. Little, Jr. (U.S. Department of Agriculture Handbook No. 41, published in 1953.)

Trees and Shrubs

Alder, thinleaf—Alnus tenuifolia
Aspen, quaking—Populus tremuloides
Birch, water—Betula occidentalis
Bitterbrush, antelope—Purshia tridentata
Cottonwood, narrowleaf—Populus angustifolia
Currant, wax—Ribes cereum
Douglas-fir—Pseudotsuga menziesii
Fir, subalpine—Abies lasiocarpa
Honeysuckle, bearberry—Lonicera involucrata
Juniper, Rocky Mountain—Juniperus scopuloram
Maple, Rocky Mountain—Acer glabrum glabrum
Mountain-ash, Greenes—Sorbus scopulina
Pine, limber—Pinus flexilis
Pine, lodgepole—Pinus contorta
Pine, ponderosa—Pinus ponderosa
Raspberry, American red—Rubus idaeus strigosus
Raspberry, boulder—Rubus deliciosus
Sagebrush, big—Artemisia tridentata
Spruce, blue—Picea pungens
Spruce, Engelmann—Picea engelmannii
Willow, Scouler—Salix scouleriana

Wildflowers

Actinea, graylocks—Actinea grandiflora
Arnica, heartleaf—Arnica cordifolia
Bistort, American—Polygonum bistortoides
Black-eyed susan—Rudbeckia hirta
Buttercup, alpine—Ranunculus adoneus
Calypso—Calypso bulbosa
Columbine, Colorado—Aquilegia coerulea
Coralroot, spotted—Corallorhiza maculata
Crazyweed, Lambert—Ozytropis lamberti
Dryad, Mt. Washington—Dryas octopetala
Erysimum, plains—Erysimum asperum
Fireweed—Epilobium angustifolium
Forget-me-not, alpine—Eritrichum argenteum
Gaillardia, common perennial—Gaillardia aristata
Geranium, Fremont—Geranium fremonti
Globe-flower, white—Trollius albiflorus
Iris, Rocky Mountain—Iris missouriensis
Jamesia, cliff—Jamesia americana
Kings crown—Sedum integrifolium
Marsh-marigold, elkslip—Caltha leptosepala
Miner’s candle—Cryptantha virgata
Monkshood, Columbia—Aconitum columbianum
Pasqueflower, American—Anemone ludoviciana
Penstemon, oneside—Penstemon unilateralis
Phlox, tufted—Phlox caespitosa
Primrose, Parry—Primula parryi
Pyrola—Pyrola spp.
Silene, moss—Silene acaulis
Starlily, common—Leucocrinum montanum
Thermopsis, spreading—Thermopsis divaricata
Townsendia, stemless—Townsendia exscapa
Twinflower, American—Linnaea borealis americana

ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK COLORADO

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U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1964—742-848

Transcriber’s Notes

  • This etext based on a U.S. government publication is public domain in the United States.
  • Corrected a few palpable typos.
  • In the text versions only, text in italics is delimited by _underscores_.