Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Potentilla saximontana [Potentilla rubricaulis] [Potentilla hookeriana]
- Family
- Rosaceae
- CommonName
- Rocky Mountain cinquefoil, red-stemmed cinquefoil
- Presence
- YES
- Status
- native
- EarliestDate
- 1978
- LatestDate
- 2023
- Ecosystem
- montane, subalpine, tundra
- Geobotanical
- SSawatch, Garitas, NCristos
- Counties
- Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Hinsdale, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache, San Juan
- Passes
- Cochetopa, Stony
- WildlifePreserves
- Other Localities
- Comments
- Generally a high-elevation cinquefoil, Potentilla saximontana may be occasionally found in montane meadows, but typically it thrives in tundra meadows, rock outcrops, and rill edges. Documented locations are scattered around the Watershed, but there are no records from the Culebras. Note, however, that according to SEINet, there are two vouchers from the Rio Grande drainage Cristos of New Mexico, one in Taos Co and the other in Colfax Co. The species does not follow the drainage any farther south. Its USA distribution is mainly the southern and central Rocky Mountains and the Intermountain region of Utah. Note that BONAP (2023) treats this taxon as Potentilla rubricaulis, and most specimens in herbaria are labeled as such. But FNA makes P. saximontana and P. rubricaulis separate species, with the second restricted to Canada and Alaska.
- Annotation