Single Record

Participant Info

Species
Potentilla hookeriana [Potentilla nivea var. hookeriana] [Potentilla nivea subsp. hookeriana]
Family
Rosaceae
CommonName
Hooker's cinquefoil
Presence
yes
Status
native
EarliestDate
1988
LatestDate
2003
Ecosystem
subalpine, tundra
Geobotanical
SSanjuans, Culebras, NCristos
Counties
Costilla, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache, San Juan
Passes
Stony
WildlifePreserves
Other Localities
Comments
NEED IN SITU PHOTOS. Potentilla hookerian has a few Watershed locations, on both sides of the Valley: e.g., slopes of Trinchera Peak (Costilla Co, 1998); Stony pass (San Juan Co, 2003); 13 air miles SW of Creede (Mineral Co, 2003); upper slopes and summit of Del Norte Peak (Rio Grande Co, 2003). These are all tundra or subalpine locations. Note that the taxon is contested. BONAP considers it a synonym of P. rubricaulis, and FNA, while accepting P. hookeriana as legitimate, notes that its varieties share "many of the same characters with P. rubricaulis but are smaller overall." Ackerfield (2022) accepts P. hookeriana as legitimate and keys it next to P. nivea, stressing the conspicuous glands in the inflorescence of P. hookeriana. Hogan and Elliot (2022) say that the few collections from the North Cristos may be misidentifications of P. uniflora, p. 218). As for the USA distribution, FNA names Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Utah, and Wyoming, so the Watershed locations would lie at the southern edge.