Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Potentilla gracilis [Potentilla elmeri] [Potentilla fastigiata] [Potentilla jucunda] [Potentilla nuttallii var. glabrata] [Potentilla pectinisecta]
- Family
- Rosaceae
- CommonName
- slender cinquefoil
- Presence
- YES
- Status
- native
- EarliestDate
- 1914
- LatestDate
- 2021
- Ecosystem
- montane, subalpine, tundra, ruderal, urban
- Geobotanical
- SSawatch, Garitas, SSanjuans, Culebras, NCristos
- Counties
- Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Hinsdale, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache, San Juan
- Passes
- Elwood, Grayback, Mosca, North, South, Spring Creek, Stony, Wolf Creek
- WildlifePreserves
- Brown Lakes, Great Sand Dunes
- Other Localities
- La Botica, Del Norte
- Comments
- Slender cinquefoil has been one of the most commonly collected of cinquefoils in the Watershed, adapted to a variety of habitats if they are slightly mesic, including tundra meadows and subalpine spruce forest edges. The large preponderance of records, however, is from the west mountains. SEINet shows only four records from the Cristos—and Hogan and Elliot (2022) indicate none from the North Cristos wilderness The exact definition of the species has long been under dispute, as the number of synonyms indicates, as has its distinction from its close cousin, Potentilla pulcherrima. By whatever name, its presence in the Watershed and in Rio Arriba, Taos, and Santa Fe counties of New Mexico, mark the southeast corner of its USA distribution. The Watershed may have two of the three varieties of P. gracilis: var. fastigiata and var. flabelliformis.
- Annotation