Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Polemonium viscosum
- Family
- Polemoniaceae
- CommonName
- sky pilot, skunkweed
- Presence
- YES
- Status
- native
- EarliestDate
- 1911
- LatestDate
- 2018
- Ecosystem
- montane, subalpine, tundra
- Geobotanical
- SSawatch, Garitas, SSanjuans, Culebras, NCristos
- Counties
- Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Hinsdale, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache, Archuleta, San Juan
- Passes
- Elwood, Grayback, Gunsight, Music, Stony, Slumgullion
- WildlifePreserves
- Wheeler
- Other Localities
- Comments
- Along with Polemonium pulcherrimum, P. viscosum is the most commonly collected Jacob's-ladder in the Watershed. In contrast to P. pulcherrimum, sky pilot's habitat is open meadows and slopes, usually in the tundra. The specimens collected from the Rio Grande drainage of northern New Mexico (Taos and Santa Fe counties) mark the southeastern corner of its USA distribution. Note that Allred et al. (2020) examined many specimens of P. confertum and P. viscosum from southern Colorado and New Mexico and found that the New Mexico vouchers were intermediate between the two species and that "Most of the plants from southern Colorado called confertum [also] belonged to such intermediates and could easily be referred to viscosum."
- Annotation