Participant Info

Species

Polemonium pulcherrimum [Polemonium delicatum]

Family

Polemoniaceae

CommonName

showy Jacob’s ladder, skunk-leaved polemonium

Presence

YES

Status

native

EarliestDate

1911

LatestDate

2016

Ecosystem

montane, subalpine, tundra

Geobotanical

SSawatch, Garitas, SSanjuans, Culebras, NCristos

Counties

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

Passes

Grayback, Gunsight, Music, Spring Creek, Stony, Wolf Creek

WildlifePreserves

Other Localities

PhotoRecords

YES Rich Haswell: Rio Grande Co, 2 miles S of Grayback pass 6 Aug 2016

Comments

Showy Jacob's-ladder is one of the two most commonly collected Jacob's-ladder of the Watershed (the other is P. viscosum). Polemonium pulcherrimum grows in a range of of habitats including the subalpine and alpine, typically in the shade of trees, shrubs, or rocks. It is a western USA plant, and continues down the Rio Grande drainage of New Mexico as far as Santa Fe Co. The common name,"skunk-leaved polemonium," is accurate as to odor.

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