Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Penstemon teucrioides
- Family
- Plantaginaceae
- CommonName
- germander beardtongue
- Presence
- YES
- Status
- native
- EarliestDate
- 1970
- LatestDate
- 2021
- Ecosystem
- montane
- Geobotanical
- SSawatch, Garitas, SSanjuans
- Counties
- Conejos, Hinsdale, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache
- Passes
- Cochetopa, North
- WildlifePreserves
- Other Localities
- Comments
- In the Watershed, Penstemon teucrioides has been found only on the west side, for instance, around Mogote in Conejos Co (1985-1987), 25 miles E. of Spring Creek in Hinsdale Co (1989), around Creede in Mineral Co (1970), and at Cochetopa and North passes in Saguache Co (1991, 2008). Generally it is more common, if that is the right word, in the San Juan drainage, especially around Cochetopa Dome. It likes dry volcanic substrate. FNA and BONAP show this scarce penstemon as endemic to Colorado, but there is one record from Rio Arriba Co in New Mexico, 30 miles south of Chama, collected by R. D. Harrington in 1961 (apparently Allred et al. 2020 also do not accept this record). Note that it takes careful observation to distinguish P. teucrioides from P. crandallii and P. caespitosus.
- Annotation