Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Mertensia viridis [Mertensia bakeri] [Mertensia fusiformis] [Mertensia lanceolata var. nivalis] [Mertensia oblongifolia]
- Family
- Boraginaceae
- CommonName
- Baker's bluebell
- Presence
- YES
- Status
- native
- EarliestDate
- 1898
- LatestDate
- 2014
- Ecosystem
- montane, subalpine, tundra
- Geobotanical
- Garitas, SSanjuans, Culebras, NCristos
- Counties
- Conejos, Costilla, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache
- Passes
- Cumbres, La Manga, South, Stony, Wolf Creek
- WildlifePreserves
- Other Localities
- Comments
- Most authorities place Mertensia viridis [syn Mertensia bakeri] under M. oblongifolia, but Nazaire and Hufford (2014) use phylogentic analysis to argue that Mertensia viridis should be given specific status. BONAP, following their revision of the oblongifolia complex, shows M. viridis in all counties of the Watershed except for Alamosa. The plant is always alpine or subalpine, and is distributed, wide spread, in the Rockies from Montana to New Mexico, where is follows the Rio Grande drainage south through two-thirds of the state. Allred et al. (2020) subsume M. viridis under M. ovata. Note that the presence of Watershed M. viridis in herbaria may be larger or smaller than currently catalogued because most specimens were determined before Nazaire and Hufford's 2014 revision of Mertensia.
- Annotation