Participant Info

Species

Phacelia hastata [Phacelia leptosepala] [Phacelia leucophylla]

Family

Hydrophyllaceae

CommonName

silverleaf phacelia

Presence

YES

Status

native

EarliestDate

1987

LatestDate

2014

Ecosystem

subalpine

Geobotanical

SSawatch, Garitas

Counties

Mineral, Saguache

Passes

Wolf Creek

WildlifePreserves

Other Localities

PhotoRecords

YES Rich Haswell: Mineral Co, Continental Divide north of Wolf Creek Pass 6 Aug 2014

Comments

There are only four records of Phacelia hastata from the Watershed, all from the west-side mountains: 3 miles NW of Jarosa Peak (Conejos Co, 1987); saddle below Antero Peak (Saguache Co, 1998); Continental Divide trail just N of Wolf Creek pass (Mineral Co, 2014); and along the Conejos River (Conejos Co, 2021, iNaturalist observation). This third is a photorecord that would add Mineral to counties indicated in Ackerfield (2022) and BONAP (2022). These observations would represent nearly the farthest southeast corner of the USA distribution (which covers all Western states), and nearly the only ones from the entire Rio Grande drainage. BONAP shows Sandoval Co, New Mexico, with no vouchers in SEINet.

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