Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Arctostaphylos uva-ursi [Arbutus uva-ursi] [Daphnidostilis fendleriana]
- Family
- Ericaceae
- CommonName
- bearberry, kinnikinnick
- Presence
- YES
- Status
- native
- EarliestDate
- 1914
- LatestDate
- 2020
- Ecosystem
- montane, subalpine
- Geobotanical
- SSawatch, Garitas, SSanjuans, NCristos
- Counties
- Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Hinsdale, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache
- Passes
- Cochetopa, La Veta, South, Wolf Creek
- WildlifePreserves
- Other Localities
- Comments
- Kinnikinnick (from the Unami Delaware language) is a ubiquitous understory plant of conifer forests all around the Watershed—mesophytic, sometimes trailing down rock faces, sometimes found in open meadows. There is only one collection of Arctostaphylos uva-ursi from the Culebras: west of Trinchera Peak, Costilla Co, 2022 (an iNaturalist photorecords). Probably the species is more wide spreading in the Culebras, judging from New Mexico records. In the USA, bearberry is the most wide spread of the Manzanita genus, found in all regions except for the Great Plains and the Deep South. Incidentally the binomial is redundant: arcto = bear; staphylos = bunch of grapes; uva = grape; ursi = of bears. Or in English, bearberry bearberry.
- Annotation