Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Comarum palustre [Potentilla palustris]
- Family
- Rosaceae
- CommonName
- purple marshlocks
- Presence
- Yes
- Status
- native
- EarliestDate
- 1949
- LatestDate
- 2021
- Ecosystem
- subalpine, tundra
- Geobotanical
- SSanjuans
- Counties
- Conejos, Rio Grande
- Passes
- Cumbres, Grayback, La Manga
- WildlifePreserves
- Other Localities
- Comments
- Herbarium vouchers provide only two locations in the Watershed: a mattress bog by a pond at Cumbres Pass (Conejos Co, 1949, 1965); and a wet alpine meadow west of Grayback Peak (Rio Grande Co, 1978). Recently it has been photographed N of La Manga Pass (Conejos Co, 2016), as well again at the Cumbres Pass pond (2022). These three locations mark the very southernmost USA reach of this cirumboreal plant, The presence in Colorado is disjunct from the USA distribution, which broadly covers the states bordering Canada, and in the Pacific West on down through Oregon and northern California.
- Annotation
- Yes