Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Pedicularis crenulata
- Family
- Scrophulariaceae
- CommonName
- meadow lousewort
- Presence
- YES
- Status
- native
- EarliestDate
- 1929
- LatestDate
- 2022
- Ecosystem
- basin, foothill, montane
- Geobotanical
- SSawatch, Garitas, SSanjuans, Culebras, NCristos, UBasin
- Counties
- Costilla, Rio Grande, Saguache
- Passes
- WildlifePreserves
- Baca, Russell Lakes
- Other Localities
- Comments
- When found in the Watershed, which is not very often, Pedicularis crenulata usually is growing in wet montane meadows, for instance by lower Cotton Creek trail in the north Cristos of Saguache Co. There is some indication that the species has adapted to hay meadows in the Upper Basin but did not persist there. However, there are some recent records from Russell Lakes SWA (e.g., 1 July 2022, iNaturalist observation #124312587). The record from Hermit’s Peak in the New Mexico Cristos is actually P. racemosa (see Allred et al. 2020), so the Colorado Watershed records mark the southeastern limit of the USA distribution and the only locations in the entire Rio Grande drainage. The USA distribution includes the Rockies of Colorado and of south Wyoming, with rare outliers in Utah, Montana, and Nebraska.
- Annotation