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0 0 Tiger Moth

Tiger Moth

by hilfireCripple Creek, Colorado, USA

Erebidae Moth

0 2 Cripple Creek Donkey Herd

Cripple Creek Donkey Herd

by High Country Cow PunkColorado, USA

Direct Descendents from the Gold Rush Days in

0 0 Alaska Starwort

Alaska Starwort

by cripple.creek.katieAlaska, USA

The flowers have 5 petals, each split, appearing to be 10.

0 0 Alpine Arnica

Alpine Arnica

by cripple.creek.katieFairbanks, Alaska

Perennial plant 7 to 12" tall with flowers are large, yellow, daisy-type.

0 0 Windflower

Windflower

by cripple.creek.katieFairbanks, Alaska

Flowers have 5 rounded, white sepals and blooms as soon as the snow leaves

0 0 Grove Sandwort

Grove Sandwort

by cripple.creek.katieFairbanks, Alaska, USA

A delicate, upright plant, 4 to 7", with small 5-petaled flowers.

0 0 Crane-fly Orchid

Crane-fly Orchid

by QWMomGeorgia, USA

This orchid's blooms are well past prime, but I uploaded it to illustrate how ...

0 0 Arctic Sandwort

Arctic Sandwort

by cripple.creek.katieAlaska, USA

A low, mat-forming plant with very narrow, small leaves. The flowers are ...

1 0 Mountain Harebell

Mountain Harebell

by cripple.creek.katieAlaska, USA

Small alpine plant (2"-4") with small, oblong leaves and flowers that are ...

0 0 Saxifrage

Saxifrage

by cripple.creek.katieAlaska, USA

This may be a prickly Saxifrage, but I'm not sure. I know it is a saxifrage, ...

0 0 Alaska Poppy

Alaska Poppy

by cripple.creek.katieAlaska, USA

Plant is 6"-8" tall with small, 5-lobed, slightly hairy basal leaves. Flowers ...

1 2 Twinflower

Twinflower

by cripple.creek.katieAlaska, USA

A trailing shrub with small, rounded, light-green, evergreen leaves. The 3"-4" ...

0 0 Shrubby Cinquefoil

Shrubby Cinquefoil

by cripple.creek.katieAlaska, USA

A shrub of 1.5'-3' tallwith reddish-brown stems that have shedding bark. The ...

0 0 Alpine Azalia

Alpine Azalia

by cripple.creek.katieFairbanks, Alaska

A low mat-forming evergreen shrub with clusters of tiny, light-pink 5-petaled ...

0 0 Labrador Tea

Labrador Tea

by cripple.creek.katieFairbanks, Alaska

Evergreen shrub with long, green, oblong leaves. Flowers are small with 5 ...

0 0 Bell Heather

Bell Heather

by cripple.creek.katieFairbanks, Alaska

Growing to 4 to 8" in height, it is a strongly-branched dwarf shrub. The leaves ...

0 0 Prickly Rose

Prickly Rose

by cripple.creek.katieAlaska, USA

a prickly shrub, 1.5' to 6 ' tall, flowers have 5 pink petals, leaves turn ...

0 0 Arctic Lupine

Arctic Lupine

by cripple.creek.katieFairbanks, Alaska, USA

This perennial plant grows 10 to 16" tall. The palmate leaves consist of ...

0 0 Parry's Wallflower

Parry's Wallflower

by cripple.creek.katieAlaska, USA

These flowers smell like lilacs. The flower stalk grows 6 to 10" high and has ...

1 0 Bluebells

Bluebells

by cripple.creek.katieAlaska, USA

This plant has many stems, 18-30" tall, with hairy, dark-green leaves. The ...

1 0 Narcissus-flowered Anemone

Narcissus-flowered Anemone

by cripple.creek.katieFairbanks, Alaska

The plant grows 8 to14" tall and has 3 to 5-lobed, hairy leaves on long stems. ...

1 0 Woolly Lousewort

Woolly Lousewort

by cripple.creek.katieFairbanks, Alaska, USA

This plant is short and woolly when in bud. It grows up to 10" tall, can have ...

0 0 Blanketflower

Blanketflower

by HeidiEatonColorado, USA

Daisy-like flower with yellow petals surrounding a dark red center. Petals are ...

0 0 Orange Sulphur

Orange Sulphur

by HeidiEatonColorado, USA

Common widespread sulphur - hindwing almost always has a double cell-spot. ...

2 4 Crane-fly Orchid

Crane-fly Orchid

by QWMomGeorgia, USA

This is one of our rather common and often overlooked native orchids. You can ...

0 0 Crane-fly Orchid

Crane-fly Orchid

by QWMomGeorgia, USA

This is one of our rather common and often overlooked native orchids. Small ...

0 0 Low-Bush Cranberry

Low-Bush Cranberry

by cripple.creek.katieAlaska, USA

A low, evergreen shrub with 3"-8" upright branches with many shiny, hard, oval ...

0 0 Mountain Aven

Mountain Aven

by cripple.creek.katieAlaska, USA

A mat-forming shrub with course, oblong leaves. The flowers usually have 8 ...

1 0 Dwarf Dogwood

Dwarf Dogwood

by cripple.creek.katieAlaska, USA

A low herbaceous shrub. What looks like the flower are actually leaves. The ...

1 0 Clear-winged Grasshopper

Clear-winged Grasshopper

by BugEricColorado, USA

Medium-sized grasshopper, generally non-descript, but usually with "leopard ...

0 0 Migratory Grasshopper

Migratory Grasshopper

by BugEricColorado, USA

Another small, non-descript spur-throated grasshopper, as most members of the ...

2 0 Black-billed Magpie

Black-billed Magpie

by HeatherMillerColorado, USA

Large, noisy jay, mostly black, with very long tail and dark, stout bill. Wings ...

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