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News Release 14-037
Rocky Mountain wildflower season lengthens by more than a month
39-year bloom count reveals changes attributed to warmer climate
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Flowering plant communities in Rocky Mountain meadows may be changing in a warming climate.
Credit: David Inouye
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Researchers count wildflowers in study plots at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory.
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A snapshot-in-time: A Colorado Rocky Mountain meadow and its wildflowers, as they were last year.
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Overlapping flowering times of plants such as columbines and lupines may differ in the future.
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