Participant Info

Species

Lithospermum multiflorum [Lithospermum cognatum]

Family

Boraginaceae

CommonName

manyflowered puccoon

Presence

YES

Status

native

EarliestDate

1896

LatestDate

2017

Ecosystem

foothill, montane

Geobotanical

SSawatch, Garitas, SSanjuans, NCristos

Counties

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

Passes

Cochetopa, La Veta, Spring Creek, Wolf Creek

WildlifePreserves

Coller, Terrace Reservoir

Other Localities

La Botica

PhotoRecords

YES Rich Haswell: Rio Grande Co, West Fork of Pinos Creek 15 July 2014

Comments

In the Watershed, manyflowered puccoon is a common foothill and montane plant, often occupying the boundary between woods and meadow. It tends to be seasonal; for instance, it proliferated in the San Juans of Rio Grande Co in the summer of 2020, but not of 2019 or 2021. There are no records from the Culebras, but many collections from the New Mexico Cristos, from the border with Colorado on south. Its USA range is confined to Arizona southern Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas, where it follows the Rio Grande drainage down to the Big Bend country.

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