Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Ipomopsis aggregata
- Family
- Polemoniaceae
- CommonName
- scarlet gilia
- Presence
- YES
- Status
- native
- EarliestDate
- 1900
- LatestDate
- 2015
- Ecosystem
- basin, shrubland, foothill, montane, subalpine
- Geobotanical
- SSawatch, Garitas, SSanjuans, Culebras, NCristos, UBasin, LBasin
- Counties
- Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Hinsdale, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache, Archuleta
- Passes
- Cochetopa, Cumbres, La Manga, La Veta, South, Wolf Creek
- WildlifePreserves
- Baca, Brown Lakes, Coller, Great Sand Dunes, Hot Creek
- Other Localities
- La Botica
- Comments
- Scarlet gilia has been one of the most commonly collected flowers of the Watershed, found in every region in a variety of habitats, so long as they are well drained. The Lower Basin collections came from river bottoms and the San Luis Hills. Ipomopsis aggregata can be found in every state of the USA west of the Great Plains, and follows the Rio Grande drainage down through New Mexico past the Big Bend of Texas. Note that the Watershed has recorded several of the subspecies of I. aggregata: subsp. collina (the most commonly recorded); subsp. aggregata (nearly as common and as wide spread); subsp. formosissima (the third most common); subsp. candida (recorded infrequently from the Basin or foothills and generally from the east side of the Valley). These subspecies are determined by length of anther and, as Ackerfield notes, intergrade.
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