United States of America, Colorado, Mesa, Between Dolores Point and Dolores R ca 3 mi W of Gateway; minor drainage S of Mesa Co Rd 4.2; Moencopi Formation below Wingate sandstone cliffs, NAD27
38.700555 -109.013763
12 0672722E 4285420N
Certainty code: 1
1448 meters
4750 FT ca
On gritty, barren N facing slope below narrow ledge of crumbling red-brown rock; closest associates include Juniperus osteosperma, Pinus edulis, Amelanchior utahensis, Fraxinus anomala, and with scattered Eriogonum inflatum, Brockellia oblongifolia; ca 25
largest plants tufted in small moundsd with lax stems; corolla white with centra eye of prominent yellow fornices, wider than high and notched at apex; fruit not quite ripe and many plants still blooming
For additional information about this specimen, please contact: Jennifer Ackerfield, Head Curator of Biodiversity Collections (jennifer.ackerfield@botanicgardens.org)