Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Mentzelia nuda [Mentzelia stricta] [Bartonia nuda] [Nuttallia nuda]
- Family
- Loasaceae
- CommonName
- bractless blazingstar
- Presence
- YES
- Status
- native
- EarliestDate
- 1911
- LatestDate
- 2012
- Ecosystem
- basin, shrubland, foothill, ruderal, sanddunes
- Geobotanical
- SSanjuans, NCristos, UBasin
- Counties
- Costilla, Rio Grande, Saguache
- Passes
- WildlifePreserves
- Baca
- Other Localities
- PhotoRecords
- Comments
- NEED IN SITU PHOTOS. From the Watershed there are 10 collections of Mentzelia nuda, typically from dry foothill slopes but aslo from stabilized dunes and along roads: e.g., the Great Sand Dunes NWR (1980), near Magote in Conejos Co (1985), 6 miles N of San Luis in Costilla Co (1942), Rock Creek in Rio Grande Co (1982), Baca NWR (2012). The species is the only Watershed Mentzelia with white petals. It is largely a Great Plains plant that, however, occurs through much of Colorado and New Mexico. BONAP shows it from the south Rio Grande drainage of New Mexico (Otero Co) but not of Texas.
- Annotation