Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Penstemon palmeri
- Family
- Plantaginaceae
- CommonName
- crested beardstongue, fuzzytongue penstemon
- Presence
- Yes
- Status
- native, adventive
- EarliestDate
- 2008
- LatestDate
- 2022
- Ecosystem
- basin, ruderal
- Geobotanical
- UBasin
- Counties
- Saguache
- Passes
- WildlifePreserves
- Other Localities
- Comments
- This tall, stately penstemon has been cultivated and used for highway reseeding or beautification projects. One population south of Villa Grove along Hwy 285 was last recorded in 2017 and currently is no longer there. Another was recorded a little farther north on the same highway on 5 July 2021 (iNaturalist observation 86150285), and a third on Hwy 285 near the junction with Hwy 17 on 24 June 2022 (iNaturalist observation 123450831). Other than these highway seedings, there is no evidence that P. palmeri is native to the Watershed. Palmer's penstemon is native to the USA Southwest, but whether it is native, adventive, naturalized, or exotic in Colorado) seems a matter of debate. Note that BONAP shows it as native in Colorado—as well as in New Mexico, although Allred et al. 2020 treat it as exotic there. In New Mexico, BONAP shows the species as far down the Rio Grande drainage as Doña Ana Co, but no farther down stream.
- Annotation