Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Cerastium beeringianum
- Family
- Caryophyllaceae
- CommonName
- Bering chickweed
- Presence
- YES
- Status
- native
- EarliestDate
- 1945
- LatestDate
- 2016
- Ecosystem
- subalpine
- Geobotanical
- SSawatch, Garitas, SSanjuans, Culebras, NCristos
- Counties
- Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Hinsdale, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache, San Juan
- Passes
- Elwood, Grayback, Music, Stony
- WildlifePreserves
- Other Localities
- Comments
- Bering chickweed,the most common alpine Cerastium in the Watershed, has been recorded from both sides of the Valley, north and south. Cerastium beeringianum seems to like the shelter of rock ledges and rock slides but can be found growing in open meadows as well. It is distributed, patchily, in all Western USA states, but its concentration is the Southern Rockies of Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico. There are two opinions about the specific epithet. Does it refer to Graf von Beering, a 19th-century collector (Weber and Wittmann) or to the Bering region (Allred et al. (2020)?
- Annotation