Participant Info

Species

Leptosiphon nuttallii [Linanthastrum nuttallii] [Gilia nuttallii] [Linanthus nuttallii]

Family

Polemoniaceae

CommonName

Nuttall’s linanthus, Nuttall's desert-trumpet

Presence

YES

Status

native

EarliestDate

1934

LatestDate

2014

Ecosystem

montane, subalpine, tundra

Geobotanical

SSanjuans, NCristos

Counties

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

Passes

Wolf Creek

WildlifePreserves

Other Localities

PhotoRecords

YES Rich Haswell: Mineral Co, Continental Divide north of Wolf Creek Pass 6 Aug 2014

Comments

When Nuttall's desert-trumpet has been collected from the Watershed, which has not been often, it usually has been taken from the San Juans around Wolf Creek Pass and on south, with one outlier, collected in 1943, from Black Canyon of the North Cristos (that starts at Hayden Pass). Note that there are severao collections from Custer Co, from the east slopes of the North Cristos. Leptosiphon nuttallii likes loose rocky soil close to trees, usually in the subalpine. The Watershed occurrences lie at the eastern edge of the USA distribution, and run down through the Rio Grande drainage of New Mexico almost to the Mexican border.

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