Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Aquilegia barnebyi
- Family
- Ranunculaceae
- CommonName
- oil shale columbine
- Presence
- YES
- Status
- native
- EarliestDate
- 1968
- LatestDate
- 1968
- Ecosystem
- tundra
- Geobotanical
- SSanjuans
- Counties
- Mineral
- Passes
- WildlifePreserves
- Other Localities
- PhotoRecords
- Comments
- NEED IN SITU PHOTOS. For this uncommon columbine there is only one record from the Watershed, collected in 1986 by R. Walter from Mineral Co, "above Boulder Creek N of Santa Marie Lake, elev. 9699'." William Jennings confirms that judging from the photograph of the herbarium specimen, it is A. barnebyi (personal communication, 8/26/2021). The center of the USA population is only two counties in Utah (Duchesne and Uintah), and seven in Colorado (Rio Blanco, Garfield, Mesa, Montrose, Pitkin, Gunnison, and Mineral). BONAP, however, accepts only two of the Colorado counties, Rio Blanco and Garfield, and surprisingly adds Rio Arriba in New Mexico (with no vouchers in SEINet). There are intermediates between A. barnebyi and A. micrantha in Colorado.
- Annotation