Participant Info

Species

Galium boreale [Galium septentrionale]

Family

Rubiaceae

CommonName

northern bedstraw

Presence

YES

Status

native

EarliestDate

1899

LatestDate

2018

Ecosystem

basin, shrubland, montane, subalpine

Geobotanical

SSawatch, Garitas, SSanjuans, Culebras, NCristos, UBasin

Counties

Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Hinsdale, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache, Archuleta

Passes

Cumbres, Elwood, Hayden, La Veta, Medano, North

WildlifePreserves

Baca, Great Sand Dunes

Other Localities

La Botica

PhotoRecords

YES Rich Haswell: Mineral Co, Hope Creek burn, 18 June 2018

Comments

Northern bedstraw is easily found on both sides of the Valley, especially in shaded, slightly mesic habitats. The Hope Creek photorecord (Mineral Co, 2018) was taken the summer after an intense forest fire destroyed a mixed conifer woodland that had many dead Engelmann spruce. This circumboreal species is common across the northern third of the USA, with an extension down the Rockies nearly to the Mexican border with New Mexico. It does not continue on down the Rio Grande drainage of Texas.

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