Harold DeWitt Roberts

Harold DeWitt Roberts was an American writer and nature photographer best remembered for Colorado Wild Flowers, a Denver Museum of Natural History publication from 1953 created with Rhoda N. Roberts. The book was designed as a practical, approachable guide to common Colorado wildflowers rather than a technical manual, and it introduced many readers to the plants of the Rockies through photographs and plain-language descriptions.

The museum’s foreword to the book described Harold and Rhoda Roberts as leading photographers of Colorado and Southwestern wildflowers, which suggests the pair were especially respected for their field knowledge and visual work. Their book has lasted well beyond its original release and is still available today in digitized form, a sign of its continuing value to readers interested in regional natural history.

Reliable biographical details about Roberts himself are limited in the sources I could confirm, so it is safest to remember him primarily through that contribution: a mid-20th-century guide that helped make Colorado’s wildflowers easier to see, name, and appreciate.