Participant Info

Species

Penstemon hallii

Family

Plantaginaceae

CommonName

Hall’s penstemon

Presence

YES

Status

native

EarliestDate

1945

LatestDate

2020

Ecosystem

montane, subalpine, tundra

Geobotanical

Garitas, SSanjuans, Culebras, NCristos

Counties

Conejos, Hinsdale, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache, Archuleta, San Juan

Passes

Elwood, Grayback, Music, North, Spring Creek, Stony, Wolf Creek, Slumgullion

WildlifePreserves

Wheeler

Other Localities

PhotoRecords

YES Rich Haswell: Rio Grande Co, near Elwood Pass 2 Aug 2019

Comments

Hall's penstemon has been often collected in the Watershed, with most records from the south San Juans. So far it has not been found farther north than Moon Pass. There are only two collections from the Cristos of the Watershed (2013). The species would be endemic to Colorado except for one collection from Rio Arriba Co, New Mexico, just west of Cruces Basin (2007)—a record apparently not accepted by BONAP or Allred et al. (2020).

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