Participant Info

Species

Penstemon whippleanus [Penstemon arizonicus] [Penstemon stenosepalus]

Family

Plantaginaceae

CommonName

Whipple’s beardtongue

Presence

YES

Status

native

EarliestDate

1912

LatestDate

2015

Ecosystem

montane, subalpine, tundra

Geobotanical

SSawatch, Garitas, SSanjuans, Culebras, NCristos

Counties

Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Hinsdale, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache, San Juan

Passes

Carnero, Cumbres, Elwood, Grayback, Music, Spring Creek, Stony, Stunner, Wolf Creek, Slumgullion

WildlifePreserves

Other Localities

PhotoRecords

YES Rich Haswell Rio Grande Co, Grayback Mountain (budding) 20 July 2015

Comments

Whipple's beardstongue is a distinctive and common Penstemon of subalpine rocky slopes, often at the edge of spruce and willow groves. It also reaches on up into and tundra meadows. In the Watershed it is found in all mountain regions and extends down the New Mexico drainage almost to the Mexican border. Its USA range is the Central and Southern Rockies, northern Arizona, and most of Utah.

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