Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Parnassia fimbriata
- Family
- Celastraceae [Parnassiaceae]
- CommonName
- fringed grass-of-Parnassus
- Presence
- YES
- Status
- native
- EarliestDate
- 1986
- LatestDate
- 2020
- Ecosystem
- montane, subalpine, tundra
- Geobotanical
- SSawatch, SSanjuans, NCristos
- Counties
- Conejos, Costilla, Hinsdale, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache, Archuleta
- Passes
- WildlifePreserves
- Other Localities
- Comments
- Parnassia fimbriata has been collected rather often in the Watershed, from both sides of the Valley. It prefers wet montane and tundra habitats such as meadow seeps, shaded creek and rill sides, etc. There are no collections from the Culebras, but the flower is present in the northern Cristos of New Mexico, in Taos and Rio Arriba counties. One of the latest records from the Watershed comes from Cottonwood Creek, southeast of Crestone (Saguache Co, 15 July 2020, iNaturalist observation #70281357). The species is wide spread in the northern two thirds of Western states, but absent in southern California, Arizona, and almost all of New Mexico, whose northern border marks the southeast corner of the USA distribution.
- Annotation