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'Spectacular' wildflower season blooms in Colorado; With the backdrop of a two-decade megadrought in the
climate changeGunnison National ForestCrested ButteGothicRocky Mountain Biological LaboratoryColoradoWestern slopeAmerican WestMertensiaAquilegiaErythronium grandiflorumPedicularis groenlandica
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The siren songs of wildflowers come in blue and orange and red. Electricity runs through roots, it seems, to light each neon face. A year of hearty snow in Colorado has meant a stunning wildflower season, feted by a mountain festival in the town of Crested Butte - known as the state's "wildflower ca
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