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Kristine ❌👑 @extrasuperkk.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

I attended the Colorado Pollinator Summit last week in #Boulder. This was one of the most impactful talks for me. Watch it. Find out how to support the #SeedWeNeed bill in the #ColoradoLegislature youtu.be/gqY2HSEquZM?...

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Neonics in Colorado with Lena Freij, Natural Resources Defense Council

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 06/07/2025

reminder: climate fatalism becomes starkly absurd when you put it in literal, immediate and physical terms. Oh no there's just no way we can ever stop handing billions in subsidies to this coal mining company. Damn, we're doomed. Guess we just keep on doin it

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/06/2025

We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose. “They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a 29-year-old in California wrote.

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“I Have Lost Everything”: The Toll of Cities’ Homeless Sweeps

Cities often take belongings — including important documents and irreplaceable mementos — when they conduct sweeps of homeless encampments. ProPublica gave notecards to people across the country so…

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Catie Michel @catiecreating.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

New mural complete in Arvada, CO, created by many hands! It has been a longtime dream to host nature walks, incorporate the community’s observations into the design, and invite volunteers to kick off the mural for community paint days. #publicart #mural #natureart #commission #colorado #painting 🪶

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Rosie S. @rosiespinoza.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

100 days of CO native plants (76/100) Fragaria virginiana 🍓 #mammals, #birds, and #turtles alike delight in the fruits of #Fragaria_virginiana, and its nectar and pollen feed myriad bee, butterfly, and other insect species. Attached art printed (by me) using a #TetraPak carton.

A grayscale intaglio print of Fragaria virginiana, a species of wild strawberry native to most of North America.

The two exterior panels of the three panel print reflect wild strawberry’s bright white five-petal flowers with many central stamen.

In the wider, central panel there is an image of the strawberry plant bearing four small fruits.

The outer margins of the trifoliate leaves are coarsely toothed, and they span across all three panels of the print.

Printed on white paper using a black Charbonnel water-soluble printing ink.

Backside of the TetraPak carton used to make the intaglio print pictured in the prior image.

The inked outlines of the flowers and leaves are visible in the white Nutrition Facts and barcode sections of the Kettle & Fire Bone Broth carton.

The carton was cut to the desired frame size and shape for the print.

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Rosie S. @rosiespinoza.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

“Life Creates Conditions Conducive to Life,” #JanineBenyus, and is there any greater example than strawberries? 🍓 #Fragaria_virginiana supports 75 species of #BAMONA (Butterflies and Moths of North America), including 66 native to #Colorado. Source: plantfinder.nativeplanttrust.org/plant/Fragar...

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Fragaria virginiana

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Britta Shoot @brittashoot.com · 05/03/2025

My latest @kqedarts.bsky.social story about sold-out masks-required shows sums up many of my thoughts on the ongoing pandemic's fifth anniversary. Many of us are living in the actual new normal. It's never too late to start protecting your loved ones & self again! www.kqed.org/arts/1397262...

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Why Masks-Required Concerts Still Sell Out in the Bay Area | KQED

COVID-conscious musicians and fans have created a tight-knit, DIY scene that’s all about accessibility.

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Rosie S. @rosiespinoza.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

100 days of CO native plants (75/100) Festuca arizonica family: Poaceae 🌾 #ArizonaFescue is a cool-season, long lived perennial bunch grass and common understory species with #PonderosaPine 🦋 hosts several butterfly species. 🦌 provides forage for deer, elk, antelope, mountain goat, bighorn sheep.

A colorful drawing of a Ponderosa Pine and Arizona Fescue ecological system.

The understory is a beautiful layer of blue-green bunch grass. In the background, there is a stand of dark green pine trees along the horizon line.

The sky is a bright blue above them, with a pocket of white clouds in the top left corner.

Drawn with Copic markers.

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Corsi-Rosenthal Foundation (US) @crfoundationus.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Hear how frequent illness and poor air quality posed major problems for students at Red Rock Elementary, and how Corsi-Rosenthal Boxes boosted their health and ability to learn. Learn more at: CleanAirK12.com CorsiRosenthalFoundation.org #CRBox #CleanAirK12 Full Video: youtu.be/dUYLPUfkv0g

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Rosie S. @rosiespinoza.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

100 days of CO native plants (74/100) Alnus incana ssp. tenuifolia family: Betulaceae (Birch) Thinleaf Alder grows along streams, lakes, wet meadows and gulches, dominating some lower montane riparian shrublands. Important host plant for native invertebrate larvae and food source for #birds. 🐛 🐦

A Copic marker drawing of Alnus incana subspecies tenuifolia, also called thinleaf alder.

The shrub has simple, alternate leaves and may be multi-stemmed, growing upright up to 15 feet tall.

The flowers emerge before the leaves, with five to twenty millimeter long pistillate catkins and five to twenty centimeter long staminate catkins. (Monoecious)

The fruits (pictured) are persistent woody strobili that resemble miniature pinecones. There is a brown mature strobilus in the foreground and three bright green still-ripening strobili behind it.

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Rosie S. @rosiespinoza.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

100 days of CO native plants 🌲🌾 forest-plains grassland #ecotone 70: Pinus ponderosa var. scopulorum (Rocky Mountain #ponderosapine) Understory grass species: 71: Buchloe dactyloides 72: Bouteloua eriopoda 73: Pascopyrum smithii & 🌾 Bouteloua gracilis (reposted below) conps.org/project/sout...

A sketchbook sits opened to a drawing of two Rocky Mountain ponderosa pine trees and understory grass species.

The tall narrow trees have long stiff yellow-green needles and red-brown furrowed bark. The grass species in the understory include western wheatgrass, buffalo grass, and two species of grama grasses, identifiable by their distinctive eyelash inflorescences.

There is a beige-brown rock in the distance behind the trees.

Drawn with pencil, pen, and Copic markers.

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Rosie S. @rosiespinoza.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

100 days of CO native plants (69/100) Prunus americana 🌸 🐛 🦋 🍑 🐦 American Wild Plum is an important larval and adult food host for many native invertebrates. It grows in thickets that provide valuable nesting cover for many kinds of #birds, who also eat the fruits. www.fcgov.com/vegetation/?...

A drawing of two plump maroon American Wild Plum fruits hanging from a branch.

The leaves on the branch are the orange-yellow color characteristic of the tree in autumn.

Drawn using copic markers.

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Rosie S. @rosiespinoza.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

100 days of CO native plants (68/100) 🌼 Caltha leptosepala 🌼 family: Ranunculaceae (buttercup) #MarshMarigold is a bright and delightful perennial forb that blooms in Colorado #SubalpineWillowCarrs in early spring. Their heart-shaped leaves are eaten by elk. 🦌 www.fs.usda.gov/wildflowers/...

A drawing of Marsh Marigolds made with copic markers.

There are four white flowers made of sepals only, with no real petals. The centers of the flowers are dotted with clusters of many bright yellow stamens. The leaves are broad and bright green, lighter along the veins.

The flowers are growing against a pinkish beige rock and green-brown moss in a marshy basin.

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MaceyLou @wildapproach.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

The first episode in my video series titled “Butterflies and Their Host Plants” is now available!🦋✨ Let me know what you think in the comment section of the video. youtu.be/3Loz3DFiunI #butterflygarden #butterflygardening #wildlifegarden #nativeplants

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Butterflies and Their Host Plants || Part 1

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Rosie S. @rosiespinoza.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

100 days of CO native plants Featured plant community: #Salixmonticola / #Carexutriculata Wet Shrubland 63: Salix monticola 64: Carex utriculata 65: Deschampsia caespitosa 66: Calamagrostis canadensis 67: Mertensia ciliata 🌳 🌾 🦫🪻 #SubalpineWillowCarrs are often found near #beaver ponds.

A bound sketchbook is open to a six by twelve inch drawing of a Colorado subalpine willow carr plant community.

In the center of the frame, a beaver swims across a pond carrying willow branches in its mouth.

On the left, there is a tangle of branching willow shrub; its leaves are bright green on top and a pale gray-green on bottom.

Beside the willow along the pond’s edge grows beaked sedge, with yellow-green spike seedheads. At the bottom, also along the pond’s edge, there are streamside bluebells.

On the right side of the pond there are two species of grass, common names bluejoint and tufted hairgrass.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 10/02/2025

I know there's been years of disinfo downplaying the flu in order to dismiss COVID as a threat, but both things cause serious illness and are best avoided. This flu wave is no joke. It's a good idea to get this season's flu vaccine (it's not too late), and wear a well-fitting mask like an N95.

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Rosie S. @rosiespinoza.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

100 days of CO native plants #Solidago spp. 🌼 i.e. #Goldenrod genus Pictured left to right: 57: Solidago velutina 58: Solidago simplex var. simplex 59: Solidago multiradiata var. scopulorum 60: Solidago gigantea 61: Solidago nemoralis var. longipetiolata 62: Solidago speciosa var. pallida 🌼 🐛 🌼 🦋

A bound sketchbook is open to a drawing of six different Solidago species in a grassy meadow below a blue sky.

The stems range from around one to six feet tall, lined with long green leaves and topped with bright yellow inflorescences of tens to hundreds of flowerheads.

As described in the reposted Bluesky post by High Plains Environmental Center, Solidago species host seventy-nine different caterpillar species in Colorado!

Goldenrods are a high impact addition to any North American pollinator garden, and a boon for birds.

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Rosie S. @rosiespinoza.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

100 days of CO native plants genus: Helianthus / Asterales It has been a dark few weeks. I hope these sunflowers help provide some light. 🌻🌻🌻🌻 Ordered from shortest to tallest: (53/100) Helianthus pumilus (54/100) Helianthus petiolaris (55/100) Helianthus nuttallii (56/100) Helianthus maximiliani

A 6 inch by 12 inch sketchbook opened to a colorful drawing of four sunflower species that are native to Colorado. Drawn using copic markers.

The sunflowers range from a couple feet tall to almost ten feet tall. There is a sunflower with a singular flowerhead in the bottom left corner. Beside it, many prairie sunflower stems with bright yellow singular flowerheads grow from a taproot, their stems lined with darker green lanceolate shaped leaves. There is a taller sunflower behind it with three bright yellow flowerheads, and the Maximilian sunflower beside that is the tallest and largest. It has many towering stems lined with tens of bright yellow flowers.

Plants in the Helianthus genus serve as host plants for sixty-nine species of caterpillars in Colorado! (See reposted content from the High Plains Environmental Center for more information.)

There are many different species of caterpillars crawling along the leaves of each of the sunflowers. The blue sky above them is dotted with many different butterfly, moth, and skipper species in flight.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Anna-Maria Schipper Vermeiren, contemporary quilt artist of Haaften, The Netherlands #WomensArt

Pictorial quit artwork featuring a garden scene with tall plants with green stems and pink and red blossoms in front of more foliage and a white wall to the right

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Rosie S. @rosiespinoza.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

100 days of CO native plants (52/100) Rudbeckia hirta var. pulcherrima family: Asteraceae Warm-season annual/biennial forb that reseeds readily. Many one to three foot tall stems grow from a taproot, each one topped with a bright yellow solitary flower. 🌻 www.inaturalist.org/taxa/62741-R...

A small bound book open to a colorful drawing of Rudbeckia hirta (common name: black-eyed Susan), drawn with copic markers.

The drawing features three flowers with ten to twenty yellow ray flowers arranged around an orange-brown conical head. The stems are lined with simple, alternating green leaves.

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Rosie S. @rosiespinoza.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

100 days of CO native plants (51/100) 🌸 Kalmia microphylla 🌸 family: Ericaceae (heather) This short shrub thrives in open heath or shrublands with moist, acidic soils. The flowers have five fused pink petals and bear five-parted capsule fruits upon pollination. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalmia_...

A drawing of an alpine meadow with pink flowers set against a backdrop of evergreen trees, gray-green snow-capped mountains, and blue sky.

The flowers in the foreground are Kalmia microphylla, commonly known as alpine laurel, swamp laurel, and western bog-laurel.

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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

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End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs

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Rosie S. @rosiespinoza.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

100 days of CO native plants (50/100) 🌳 Populus deltoides family: Salicaceae (willow) Highlighting a very special species to celebrate the halfway point of this series. This keystone species is the largest native broadleaf tree in Colorado and one of the largest hardwood trees in North America.

A bound sketchbook open to a colorful oil pastel rendition of Populus deltoides, also known as plains cottonwood.

It is tall and wide with thick branches, gray, furrowed bark, and broad, bright yellow leaves that are characteristic of the species in autumn.

The sky behind the tree is a bright clear blue.

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Entomological Society of America @entsocamerica.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Arthropod Photo of the Week: January 29, 2025 Cellophane bee Colletes wilmattae Hymenoptera: Colletidae Thilina Hettiarachchi, Manitoba, Canada #arthropodPOTW

A close-up of a bee perched on a central cluster of a vibrant purple flower. The bee's wings are delicately veined, and the bee’s is covered in short, fine cream-colored hairs throughout its body. Bright yellow stamens surround the bee.

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Rosie S. @rosiespinoza.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

100 days of CO native plants (49/100) Coreopsis tinctoria family: Asteraceae 🌻 Plains coreopsis is an annual forb native to North America. The flowerheads provide nectar and pollen to insects including long-tongued bees, short-tongued bees, wasps, flies, butterflies, skippers, and beetles. 🐝🦋🐞

A small book is opened to a colorful drawing of Coreopsis tinctoria.

Several bicolor golden flowers with mahogany centers bloom atop bright green slender stems with narrow opposite leaves. A few red buds with bright yellow centers spring up beside them.

Drawn with copic markers and colored pencils.

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Rosie S. @rosiespinoza.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

100 days of CO native plants family: Anacardiaceae (47/100) Rhus glabra (48/100) Rhus trilobata Smooth and Fragrant Sumac respectively. Both species produce edible red berries. Smooth Sumac is the only shrub or tree that is native to all 48 contiguous states. www.colorado.edu/asmagazine/2...

A colorful drawing of two of Colorado’s native sumac species: Smooth Sumac (left) and Fragrant Sumac (right).

The Smooth Sumac has large green opposite leaves, pink stems, and a large panicle of edible crimson berries.

The Fragrant Sumac has alternate compound leaves with three leaflets that vary in shape, lobing, and margination. Its pollinated flowers produce larger red hairy drupes.

The fruits produced by both plants are an important winter food source for birds and small mammals.

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Rosie S. @rosiespinoza.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Follow @catiecreating.bsky.social for excellent #birds and other art reflecting the natural world.

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Afro Flower @afroflower.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Words from a friend. I’m continuing to wear a mask because my homies, my loved ones, and strangers, are precious. And so am I. UnMasked Thoughts: 9 - Medium, face masks and paint markers • January 2025, Ave •

Image description of a white 3M N95 Aura face mask, with text written in black paint marker that reads: “All my homies are PRECIOUS”. “Precious” is in all caps. The artist Instagram handle @afroflowerr is vertically on the mask’s lower right corner. END ID

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Dayna Lynn Nuckolls @thepeoplesoracle.com · 25/01/2025

SARS-CoV-2 ⬇️ Immune Dysfunction & Dysregulation ⬇️ Susceptibility to bacterial infections ⬇️ Unprecedented walking pneumonia (mycoplasma) and tuberculosis outbreaks (Remember that pneumonia and tuberculosis area AIDS defining illnesses. COVID isn't HIV but it sure is acting like it)

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Jokic is still the best QB in Colorado

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Rosie S. @rosiespinoza.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

100 days of CO native plants (46/100) 🌼 Gaillardia aristata 🌼 family: Asteraceae Schinia masoni or “Colorado firemoth” is a specialist species that solely lays its eggs on blanketflowers. #BugSky Learn more about their coevolution and shared relationship to fire: www.colorado.edu/cumuseum/202...

A small bound book open to a colorful copic marker drawing of Gaillardia aristata, commonly named blanketflower.

Blanketflowers serve as a vital food source for many of our native pollinators.

The bloom has many red ray flowers with yellow tapered ends, and central disk flowers where a Colorado firemoth rests. Its yellow head and red wings camouflage the little Lepidopteran well atop the flower.

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Erin 🍂 fall is fall 🐦‍⬛ @wearegonnafindout.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

This is where in settings you can require alt text on every image you post. You should check this box.

A screenshot of bsky.app/settings/accessibility. The header says Accessibility. The only section is on Alt text and it offers options to require alt text before posting and display larger alt text badges. An informative note says that autoplay options have moved to the content and media settings, and links to those settings.

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Rosie S. @rosiespinoza.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

100 days of CO native plants (45/100) 🌼 Arnica cordifolia 🌼 family: Asteraceae Heartleaf 💚 Arnica is one of the dominant understory wildflowers in western conifer forests, known for its medicinal properties. It gets its name for its heart shaped leaves. Learn more: www.fs.usda.gov/wildflowers/...

A small bound book open to a drawing of Arnica cordifolia, also called Heartleaf Arnica.

The picture features a bright yellow ray flower with a disc center. The petals are ribbed with notches at the ends. The background is a mix of green leaves and brown-gray forest floor.

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Rosie S. @rosiespinoza.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

100 days of CO native plants (44/100) Callirhoe involucrata family: Malvaceae 🌺 (mallows) This perennial plant belongs to the same family of flowering plants as hibiscus, hollyhocks and okra. It provides nice ground cover, spreading out in a colorful mat of pink-magenta flowers and green foliage.

A bumble bee enjoys the pollen of a magenta winecup flower.

Many magenta flowers open up around it offering light yellow pollen, while another flower at the bottom of the frame remains yet unopened. The foliage beneath the flowers is a bright green color.

Sometimes called buffalo rose, Callirhoe involucrata is native to the great plains region of central North America.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

It will be easy to fall into a pattern of dunking & reacting in these times. Performing disapproval can be a consuming pastime & it is not enough. Refuse to abandon vulnerable people. Build a rebellious culture of care. If you need help, @prisonculture.bsky.social and I wrote a book to assist you.

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Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care a book by Kelly Hayes, Mariame Kaba, Harsha Walia, et al.

What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let This Radicalize You is a practical and imaginative resource for activists and organizers building powe...

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Rosie S. @rosiespinoza.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

100 days of CO native plants (43/100) Cirsium undulatum family: Asteraceae 🌻 Wavy-leaf thistle provides food for the larvae of some Lepidoptera species. 🐛 🦋 Its flowers provide nectar and pollen for bees, and its seeds are a favorite of goldfinches. 🐝 🐤 Mature plants can grow to 7ft tall.

A drawing of wavy-leaf thistle, a biennial or short-lived perennial plant native to western North America.

The plant produces a solitary flowering head with purple or cream flowers and grayish leaves due to the tomentose hairs on their surface.

There is a small orange-yellow Lepidopteran sitting atop the flower head.

Drawn using pencil and copic markers.

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Julie the ok gardener @juliejam.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

For #SixonSaturday, I decided I would start posting one native plant with six pollinators to showcase the plants with the most little friends. Monarda citriodora is an annual that can be sown in place in early spring, and it was my favorite plant of bumblebees last year. 1/2 🌱🐝🦋 #nativeplants #bees

A collage of six polinator photos of Monarda citriodora, clockwise from top left: Diana Fritillary, Brown-belted Bumblebee, Fiery Skippers, American Bumblebee, Hoary Edge Skipper, and Two-spotted Bumblebee.

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Rosie S. @rosiespinoza.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

100 days of CO native plants (42/100) 🪻Lupinus argenteus🪻 family: Fabaceae (pea) 🫛 This sun-loving, nitrogen-fixing, perennial forb is naturally widespread throughout western North America. Silvery Lupine is an important food host for many CO-native invertebrate larvae & adults (and hummingbirds!)

A drawing of around fifteen Lupine inflorescences; upright maroon stems with many blueish-purple flowers growing up along them to form conical shapes.

The ground below them is a soft bed of the plant’s gray-green, narrow, palmately compound leaves.

The top background of the drawing is a mix of gray and beige rocks.

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Rosie S. @rosiespinoza.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

100 days of CO native plants (41/100) Atriplex canescens family: Chenopodiaceae (goosefoot) Four-winged saltbush (or chamiso) is an evergreen shrub that offers cover and browse for wildlife and is extremely tolerant of drought and salinity. #NRCS Plant Guide: www.nrcs.usda.gov/plantmateria...

A drawing of four-wing saltbush, an important irregular shaped, mounding shrub that is native to the western United States.

It has slender, blue-green leaves. It is mostly dioecious, with female and male flowers on different plants. The plant pictured is female, with clusters of four-winged, tan seedheads that develop in late summer.

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Rosie S. @rosiespinoza.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

100 days of CO native plants (40/100) Amelanchier alnifolia 🫐 Saskatoon serviceberry 🫐 family: Rosaceae Produces edible fruit that is high in potassium, iron, manganese, and aluminum. Great for attracting wildlife, especially #birds. 🐤🐦🐭🦫🐻🐦‍⬛ Learn more: planttalk.colostate.edu/topics/fruit...

A small bound book is open to a drawing of the Saskatoon serviceberry, a multi-stemmed mounding shrub that grows 6-18ft tall.

Saskatoon serviceberry bloom in clusters of small white flowers that appear briefly & are followed by fruits that turn from red to purple.

The drawing depicts two clusters of round fleshy fruits. The largest and most ripe fruits are a dark purple, whereas the unripe fruits range from pink to white.

The green leaves are alternate and broadly elliptic. The species name alnifolia refers to the plant’s “alder-like” leaves.

Source: “Edible Wild Plants of the Prairie,” an ethnobotanical guide by Kelly Kindscher

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Rosie S. @rosiespinoza.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

100 days of CO native plants (39/100) 🪻 Penstemon strictus 🪻 family: Plantaginaceae (Plantain) Rocky Mountain Penstemon provides habitat for many CO native bumblebees. 🐝 Check out this piece by C. Reiners to learn more about these hardy perennial plants: frontrange.wildones.org/rocky-mounta...

A small book is open to a colorful drawing of Rocky Mountain Penstemon.

An upright purplish-green stem lined with bilateral purple tubular flowers is depicted in the foreground. The background is a mottled green.

A big bumblebee with an orange rump rests head-first inside one of the flower’s distinctive corollas.

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Rosie S. @rosiespinoza.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

100 days of CO native plants (38/100) Populus tremuloides Aspens were some of the first friends I made in Colorado. I loved the sound of their rattling leaves & sight of them shimmering in the sunlight. They are a fire-adapted species that sprouts prolifically after high intensity fires. 🔥🌱

“This is an Aspen tree. You can tell by the way it is.”

A small book is opened to a colorful drawing of the tree species Populus tremuloides, also called Quaking Aspen. The leaves are small, somewhat circular, and a bright light green. The bark is grayish white and some of the ramets have eyes that make it look like they’re watching you. (And they probably are!)

They stand together, many stems of the same beautiful organism.

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Rosie S. @rosiespinoza.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Gorgeous Calypso bulbosa in the wild. 🤩🌸 (#37 in my series drawing 100 Colorado native plants: bsky.app/profile/did:... )

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