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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 plants on a mountain](/news/mmg/media/images/DSC_4577a_f.jpg)
Flowering plant communities in Rocky Mountain meadows may be changing in a warming climate.
Credit: David Inouye
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![Three researchers counting wildflowers in study plots in the Rocky Mountains](/news/mmg/media/images/DSC_9109a_f.jpg)
Researchers count wildflowers in study plots at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory.
Credit: David Inouye
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![Colorado Rocky Mountain meadow with wildflowers in bloom](/news/mmg/media/images/DSC_4566a_f.jpg)
A snapshot-in-time: A Colorado Rocky Mountain meadow and its wildflowers, as they were last year.
Credit: David Inouye
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![columbines and lupines flowers in bloom](/news/mmg/media/images/DSCF2560a_f.jpg)
Overlapping flowering times of plants such as columbines and lupines may differ in the future.
Credit: David Inouye
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