Participant Info

Species

Mertensia arizonica

Family

Boraginaceae

CommonName

Arizona bluebell, aspen bluebell

Presence

MAYBE

Status

native

EarliestDate

1969

LatestDate

1980

Ecosystem

montane

Geobotanical

SSanjuans

Counties

Archuleta, San Juan

Passes

WildlifePreserves

Other Localities

PhotoRecords

Comments

NEED IN SITU PHOTOS. Possible presence of aspen bluebells in the Watershed is based on two imprecise vouchers, one labeled just “San Juan” Co (1969) the other “Archuleta” Co (1980). A third collection comes from just west of Stony pass, out of the watershed (1992). The three locations would form an outlier population far from the USA distribution, which according to BONAP is western Nevada, Utah, northern Arizona, northern Wyoming, and north-western Colorado (with an outlier in Huerfano Co).

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