Participant Info

Species

Polemonium brandegeei [Gilia brandegeei] [Polemonium mellitum] [Polemonium viscosum

Family

Polemoniaceae

CommonName

Brandegee’s Jacob’s-ladder

Presence

YES

Status

native

EarliestDate

1922

LatestDate

2019

Ecosystem

montane, subalpine, tundra

Geobotanical

Garitas, SSanjuans, NCristos

Counties

Alamosa, Conejos, Hinsdale, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache

Passes

WildlifePreserves

Coller

Other Localities

PhotoRecords

YES Rich Haswell: Mineral Co, Willow Creek above Creede 28 June 2019

Comments

Of Brandegee's jacob's-ladder there are fewer than 10 records from the Watershed, but from both sides of the Valley. It is most often found growing in steep rock crevices, sometimes "inaccessible" to the botanist (Sharples 2017). There are no records from the Culebras, but three from the Cristos in New Mexico. This is a Southern Rockies plant distributed from Montana to New Mexico, and not common anywhere. It follows the Rio Grande drainage only to Bernalillo Co, New Mexico.

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