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 its existence and status. 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., Susan Panjabi and Gabrielle Smith., "June 2017.", "Report prepared for: the Colorado Natural Areas Program.", "Appendix Two-Special Management Areas. Maps and location specific information provided to project partners only." --Page 14., Includes bibliographical references (pages 11-12), Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed January 2022)
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 will effectively help to conserve its habitat and is unlikely to confer substantial impacts on road maintenance goals and projects., Susan Panjabi and Gabrielle Smith., "May 2014.", "Report prepared for: Colorado Department of Transportation and the Colorado Natural Areas Program.", Includes bibliographical references (pages 10-11), Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed January 2022)
Degener's penstemon (Penstemon degeneri) is a perennial herb in the Plantaginaceae (Plaintain Family) that is found only in Fremont, Custer and Chaffee counties, and is considered to be imperiled at a global and state level. When flowering, it has beautiful blue-purple flower spikes. 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 effectively help to conserve its habitat and is unlikely to confer substantial impacts on road maintenance goals and projects., Susan Panjabi and Gabrielle Smith., "June 2017.", "Report prepared for: the Colorado Natural Areas Program.", Includes bibliographical references (pages 10-11), Online resource; title from PDF cover (viewed September 2021)
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 effectively help to conserve its habitat and is unlikely to confer substantial impacts on road maintenance goals and projects., Susan Panjabi and Gabrielle Smith., "May 2014.", "Report prepared for: Colorado Department of Transportation and the Colorado Natural Areas Program.", Includes bibliographical references (pages 10-11), Online resource; title from PDF cover (viewed September 2021)
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 of its existence and status. 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., Susan Panjabi and Gabrielle Smith., "May 2014.", "Report prepared for: Colorado Department of Transportation and the Colorado Natural Areas Program.", Includes bibliographical references (page 9), Online resource; title from PDF cover (viewed September 2021)
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., Susan Panjabi and Gabrielle Smith., "May 2014.", "Report Prepared for: Colorado Department of Transportation and the Colorado Natural Areas Program.", Includes bibliographical references (page 9-11), Online resource; title from PDF cover (viewed January 2022)
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., Susan Panjabi and Gabrielle Smith., "June 2017.", Includes bibliographical references (pages 10-11), Online resource; title from PDF cover (viewed January 2022)
Piceance bladderpod is a low, rosette-forming, yellow-flowered plant in the Brassicaceae (Mustard Family) that is found chiefly on outcrops of the Green River Shale Formation in the Piceance Basin. It grows on ledges and slopes of canyons in open area of pinon juniper communities., Susan Panjabi and Gabrielle Smith., "June 2017.", Includes bibliographical references (pages 10-11), Online resource; title from PDF cover (viewed January 2022)
Pueblo goldenweed (̲Onopsis puebloensis) is a yellow flowered plant in the Asteraceae (Sunflower Family) that is known only from the Arkansas Valley in Pueblo and Fremont 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 will effectively help to conserve its habitat and is unlikely to confer substantial impacts on road maintenance goals and projects. The Best Management Practices included in this document are intended to help increase the awareness of this species for o help increase the awareness of this species for anyone involved in road maintenance activities., Susan Panjabi and Gabrielle Smith., "June 2017.", "Report prepared for: the Colorado Natural Areas Program.", Includes bibliographical references (pages 11-12), Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed January 2022)
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 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., Susan Panjabi and Gabrielle Smith., "May 2014.", "Report prepared for: the Colorado Natural Areas Program.", Includes bibliographical references (pages 10-11), Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed January 2022)
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 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., Susan Panjabi and Gabrielle Smith., "June 2017.", "Report prepared for: the Colorado Natural Areas Program.", "Appendix two-Special Management Areas. Maps and location specific information provided to project partners only." -- Page 13., Includes bibliographical references (pages 10-11), Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed January 2022)
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 will effectively help to conserve its habitat and is unlikely to confer substantial impacts on road maintenance goals and projects., Susan Panjabi and Gabrielle Smith., "May 2014.", "Report prepared for: Colorado Department of Transportation and the Colorado Natural Areas Program.", Includes bibliographical references (pages 10-12), Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed January 2022)
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 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., Susan Panjabi and Gabrielle Smith., "June 2017.", "Report prepared for: the Colorado Natural Areas Program.", "Appendix Two-Special Management Areas. Maps and location specific information provided to project partners only." --Page 14., Includes bibliographical references (pages 11-12), Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed January 2022)
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 of awareness of its existence and status. 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., Susan Panjabi and Gabrielle Smith., "June 2017.", "Report prepared for: the Colorado Natural Areas Program.", Includes bibliographical references (pages 11-12), Online resource; title from PDF cover (viewed September 2021)
Seventeen globally imperiled plants found in oil and gas development areas in Colorado are in danger of extinction. Collectively, these species occupy less than 11,000 acres in Colorado. One of the biggest conservation issues for Colorado native plants is the lack of awareness of the existence and status of these rare plant species. Avoiding or minimizing impacts to these species during oil and gas development activities may help to effectively conserve their habitat and is unlikely to confer substantial impacts on oil and gas development projects., prepared by the Colorado Rare Plant conservation Initiative, Brian A. Elliott, Brian Kurzel, and Susan Spackman Panjabi., "August 25, 2011.", Includes bibliographical references (pages 8-9)., Online resource; title from PDF cover (viewed January 2022)
Description based on online resource; title from PDF cover (viewed September 2012), "Special thanks to the International Society of Arboriculture for providing details and drawings for this brochure."
Description based on online resource; title from PDF cover (viewed September 2012), "Special thanks to the International Society of Arboriculture for providing details and drawings for this brochure."
