Participant Info

Species

Potentilla plattensis

Family

Rosaceae

CommonName

Platte River cinquefoil

Presence

YES

Status

native

EarliestDate

1900

LatestDate

2014

Ecosystem

basin, shrubland, foothill, montane, tundra

Geobotanical

SSawatch, Garitas, NCristos, UBasin

Counties

Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Saguache

Passes

WildlifePreserves

Baca, Great Sand Dunes

Other Localities

PhotoRecords

Comments

NEED IN SITU PHOTOS. This cinquefoil shows scattered records from a range of habitats in the Watershed, including shrubland (Baca NWR) and alpine (Elkhorn Mt, E of Bonanza). It is a small cinquefoil usually buried in grass, hard to find and hard to mistake (except maybe for P. ovina). There are no records south of Wagon Wheel Gap in the west or Sangre de Cristo Creek in the east (with one 1981 voucher labeled just “Conejos”). It is present in Taos Co, New Mexico, but no farther south. The Rio Grande drainage locations mark the southeastern edge of the USA distribution, which is mainly the central western states (not California, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, or east of the Front Range).

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