Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Penstemon crandallii var. glabrescens [P. fremontii var. glabrescens] [Penstemon linarioides subsp. taosensis]
- Family
- Plantaginaceae
- CommonName
- Fremont’s beardtongue
- Presence
- YES
- Status
- native
- EarliestDate
- 1914
- LatestDate
- 2021
- Ecosystem
- foothill, montane
- Geobotanical
- SSawatch, Garitas, SSanjuans
- Counties
- Conejos, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache
- Passes
- Cochetopa, North, South
- WildlifePreserves
- Dry Creek, Hot Creek
- Other Localities
- Comments
- In the Watersjed this is the most commonly collected variety or subspecies of P. crandallii. All records, however, are from the west of the Valley. It is difficult to judge distribution of these varieties or subspecies of P. crandallii, since authorities treat them differently. Note the position of William Jennings: “in my opinion, P. crandalii, P. glabrescens, and P. ramaleyi are separable species”, Colorado Native Plants Listserve, 3/3/2020]. Robert Nold also treats this variety as a distinct species (Penstemons, 1999). In the most inclusive sense, P. crandallii is mainly distributed in Colorado and neighboring parts of Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico, where it follows the Rio Grande drainage only as far as Santa Fe Co.
- Annotation