Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Penstemon crandallii var. ramaleyi [Penstemon crandallii subsp. glabrescens]
- Family
- Plantaginaceae
- CommonName
- Ramaley’s penstemon
- Presence
- YES
- Status
- native
- EarliestDate
- 1915
- LatestDate
- 2019
- Ecosystem
- montane, subalpine
- Geobotanical
- SSawatch, Garitas, SSanjuans
- Counties
- Conejos, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache
- Passes
- Cochetopa, North, South, Spring Creek, Wolf Creek
- WildlifePreserves
- Coller, Rio Grande
- Other Localities
- La Botica
- PhotoRecords
- YES Rich Haswell: Saguache Co, CO off CR 14, 1.4 miles E of old Cochetopa pass 18 July 2016
- Comments
- Ramaley's penstemon is a distinct variety or subspecies of P. crandallii, found on dry, rocky slopes of the west Watershed ranges, sometimes associated with volcanic or ash-bed substrate, with the majority of collections from W of Saguache. It is difficult, however, to map the distribution of this variety or subspecies of P. crandallii in the Watershed, since most herbarium determinations were made before they was accepted. William Jennings comments: “in my opinion, P. crandallii, 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