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📸 Parting shot Green gentians are blooming in the mountains outside Crested Butte, Colo. Photo: John Frank/Axios The rare green gentian, or monument plant, is superblooming on Colorado's hillsides — a rare phenomenon during which tons of dormant wildflowers blossom simultaneously. The plant lives 20–60 years, but only blooms once, and then dies. Axios Denver's John Frank tells us.