Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Ipomopsis longiflora [Gilia longiflora] [Cantua longiflora]
- Family
- Polemoniaceae
- CommonName
- flaxflowered gilia, long-flower ipomopsis
- Presence
- YES
- Status
- native
- EarliestDate
- 1912
- LatestDate
- 2017
- Ecosystem
- basin, shrubland
- Geobotanical
- Garitas, SSanjuans, UBasin, LBasin
- Counties
- Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Rio Grande, Saguache
- Passes
- WildlifePreserves
- Baca, Blanca Wetlands, Great Sand Dunes, San Luis Lakes
- Other Localities
- Comments
- In the Watershed, the variety of Ipomopsis longiflora is neomexicana (Weber and Wittmann, 2012). Flaxflowered gilia is primarily an Upper Basin plant, fairly common, growing in alkaline or sandy substrate, associated with greasewood and sagebrush. There are two outliers, one from the foothills ENE of Saguache and one from an outwash near the Eastdale Reservoir in Conejos Co. An eastern Plains and desert Southwest species, it follows the Rio Grande drainage through New Mexico to the Big Bend of Texas. Note that its narrow and long corolla (up to two inches) selects for pollinators, perhaps long-tongued moths at night and hummingbirds during the day. Also note that the common name, flaxflowered gilia, probably is a false etymology, flax mistaken for phlox.
- Annotation