Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Mertensia ciliata [Pulmonaria ciliata]
- Family
- Boraginaceae
- CommonName
- tall fringed bluebell, mountain bluebell
- Presence
- YES
- Status
- native
- EarliestDate
- 1911
- LatestDate
- 2024
- Ecosystem
- montane, subalpine
- Geobotanical
- SSawatch, Garitas, SSanjuans, Culebras, NCristos
- Counties
- Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Hinsdale, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache, San Juan
- Passes
- Cumbres, Elwood, La Manga, La Veta, Music, Stony, Wolf Creek
- WildlifePreserves
- Other Localities
- Comments
- Mertensia ciliata is common creek side in all mountain regions of the Watershed, occasionally reaching into the subalpine. It ranges mainly through the mountains of all USA states west of the Great Plains. BONAP shows it present as far south in the Rio Grande drainage as Sierra Co, New Mexico, but not farther down stream. Note that Ackerfield 2022 puts M. ciliata into the category of "Upper leaf surface with pustulate hairs" (couplet 2, p. 227), but as far as I know all authorities describe the upper leaf of the species as glabrous with papillae, a feature which distinguishes it from the equally common M. franciscana. It is M. franciscana whose upper leaf surface often has some pustulate hairs.
- Annotation