Participant Info

Species

Lithospermum incisum [Lithospermum angustifolium] [Lithospermum linearifolium] [Lithospermum oblongum]

Family

Boraginaceae

CommonName

fringed puccoon, fringed stoneseed

Presence

YES

Status

native

EarliestDate

1914

LatestDate

2018

Ecosystem

basin, shrubland, foothill, montane

Geobotanical

SSawatch, Garitas, SSanjuans, Culebras, NCristos, UBasin, LBasin

Counties

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

Passes

WildlifePreserves

Great Sand Dunes

Other Localities

PhotoRecords

YES Rich Haswell: Saguache Co, Penitente Canyon 26 May 2018

Comments

Fringed puccoon is widespread around the Watershed, preferring open, dry habitats such as meadows and grassy slopes. It is a flower of middle USA, absent only on the West coast and east of the Mississippi. It is present in nearly every county of the Rio Grande drainage down to the Gulf of Mexico. Note that the species has two types of corollas: open with exserted anthers and stigma (chasmogamous), and closed (cleistogamous). Only the second, self-pollinating flower is usually fertile.

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