Participant Info

Species

Comastoma tenellum [Gentiana tenella] [Gentianella tenella]

Family

Gentianaceae

CommonName

Lapland gentian

Presence

YES

Status

native

EarliestDate

1877

LatestDate

2016

Ecosystem

montane, subalpine, tundra

Geobotanical

Garitas, SSanjuans

Counties

Hinsdale, Mineral, Saguache, San Juan

Passes

Spring Creek, Stony

WildlifePreserves

Other Localities

PhotoRecords

YES Rich Haswell: Mineral Co, Alberta Peak 28 July 2016

Comments

Of tiny Comastoma tenellum there are only a few Watershed collections. All locations are from the southwest of the Valley, in the South San Juans (where Sharples 2017 found it "rare on tundra'), except for Brandegee’s 1877 record loosely labeled “Saguache, (Crestone), Sangre de Cristo.” In the USA, the species is found in scattered locations around the West. From the Watershed the species extends south into New Mexico with only a very few occurrences from Taos and Santa Fe counties.

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