Participant Info

Species

Draba streptobrachia [Draba spectabilis var. dasycarpa]

Family

Brassicaceae

CommonName

alpine tundra draba

Presence

YES

Status

native

EarliestDate

1945

LatestDate

2015

Ecosystem

subalpine, tundra

Geobotanical

SSawatch, Garitas, SSanjuans, NCristos

Counties

Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Hinsdale, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache, Archuleta, San Juan

Passes

Grayback, Spring Creek, Stony

WildlifePreserves

Other Localities

PhotoRecords

YES Rich Haswell: Rio Grande Co, Grayback Mt 14 July 2015

Comments

Draba streptobrachia has been rather frequently collected from the Watershed high country. There is one location on the east side of the Valley (from South Zapata Lake); the rest are on the west side, with the preponderance of collections from the South San Juans. It is largely a tundra plant that seems to prefer talus slopes and rocky ledges. D. streptobrachia would be endemic to the central ranges of Colorado except for a very few collections from Taos and San Miguel counties of New Mexico.

Annotation