Participant Info

Species

Campanula parryi

Family

Campanulaceae

CommonName

Parry’s bellflower

Presence

YES

Status

native

EarliestDate

1900

LatestDate

2021

Ecosystem

shrubland, foothill, montane, subalpine

Geobotanical

Garitas, SSanjuans, NCristos, LBasin

Counties

Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Hinsdale, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache, San Juan

Passes

Cumbres, La Manga, Stony

WildlifePreserves

Baca, Big Meadows Reservoir, Great Sand Dunes

Other Localities

PhotoRecords

YES Rich Haswell: Saguache Co, meadow E of Luders Creek cpgd 26 Aug 2021

Comments

Parry's bellflower is common in the Watershed, by streams and in mesic meadows, from shrubland on up into the subalpine, on both sides of the Valley. In the 1930s Ramaley found the flower along river bottoms in the Lower Basin, but it hasn’t been recorded from there since. Judging from New Mexico records, there is little doubt that Campanula parryi grows in the Culebras, although not yet collected from there. There is a distribution in Idaho, western Montana, and the Washington Cascades (var. idahoensis), disjunct from the population in Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, and south Wyoming (var. parryi).

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