Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Physaria montana [Lesquerella montana]
- Family
- Brassicaceae
- CommonName
- mountain bladderpod
- Presence
- YES
- Status
- native
- EarliestDate
- 1935
- LatestDate
- 2019
- Ecosystem
- basin, foothill, montane, ruderal
- Geobotanical
- SSawatch, Garitas, SSanjuans, NCristos, UBasin, LBasin
- Counties
- Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache
- Passes
- Cochetopa, South
- WildlifePreserves
- Great Sand Dunes
- Other Localities
- Alamosa (town), La Botica
- Comments
- In the Watershed, mountain bladderpod has been often collected in a variety of habitats, on both sides of the Valley, usually on well drained and sometimes igneous or volcanic slopes. The Upper Basin collection near Villa Grove was by a highway, and the Lower Basin collection was in the San Luis Hills. Although not collected yet from the Culebras, doubtless this Rockies plant is present there, judging from New Mexico collections. It follows the Rio Grande drainage as far as Santa Fe Co, New Mexico (with BONAP showing Otero Co, on the Mexican border), but not into Texas. The USA distribution is largely the Rocky Mountains of southern Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico, with small bordering areas of Arizona and North and South Dakota. Despite its specific epithet, it is not recorded from Montana.
- Annotation