Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Linnaea borealis [Linnaea borealis var. americana] [Linnaea americana] [Linnaea americana var. borealis]
- Family
- Caprifoliaceae
- CommonName
- twin-flower
- Presence
- Yes
- Status
- native
- EarliestDate
- 1937
- LatestDate
- 2014
- Ecosystem
- montane, subalpine
- Geobotanical
- SSawatch, SSanjuans
- Counties
- Conejos, Hinsdale, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache
- Passes
- WildlifePreserves
- Other Localities
- PhotoRecords
- YES Rich Haswell: Rio Grande Co, logging road N of Bear Creek trail 19 miles SW of Del Norte 15 July 2014
- Comments
- In the Watershed twin-flower grows on both sides of the Valley in damp spruce forest duff, but it has also been collected from around volcanic outcrops in the south Sawatch Range. There are no collections of Linnaea borealis from the Culebras, but many from the Rio Grande Cristos of New Mexico. The 2014 Bear Creek trail photorecord southwest of Del Norte would add Rio Grande to Watershed counties indicated in Ackerfield (2022) and BONAP (2022). The USA distribution runs across the northern third of the country with extensions down the Rockies and Washington, Oregon, and northern California. The species follows the Rio Grande drainage only to Santa Fe Co, New Mexico.
- Annotation
- Yes