Single Record

Participant Info

Species
Chionophila jamesii
Family
Plantaginaceae
CommonName
Rocky Mountian snowlover
Presence
YES
Status
native
EarliestDate
1943
LatestDate
2015
Ecosystem
subalpine, tundra
Geobotanical
SSanjuans, Culebras, NCristos
Counties
Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Hinsdale, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache, Archuleta, San Juan
Passes
Grayback, Stony
WildlifePreserves
Other Localities
Comments
In the Watershed, Rocky Mountain snowlover has been collected fairly often from high elevations on both sides of the Valley. Except for a few records from two Wyoming counties bordering on Colorado and a few records from Taos County in New Mexico, Chionophila jamesii would be endemic to Colorado. It is usually found in wet or dry steep alpine slopes, often rocky.