United States of America, Colorado, Park, Mosquito Range, San Isabel National Forest, Buffalo Peaks Wilderness; headwaters of Rough & Tumbling Creek above Buffalo Meadows; ridge leading to minor summit ca. 1/3 mi. S. of summit 11735
39.00338 -106.167586
13N 0398900E 4317800N
Certainty code: 2
3536 meters
11600 FT
Precambrian quartz monzonite, adamellite, quartz substrate; gentle E. slope of rocky ridge; in open Pinus contorta ssp. latifolia forest with scattered Picea engelmannii, Populus tremloides, Pinus flexilis, Juniperus communis, on mesic to dry, gravelly soil; with Potentilla hippiana, Antennaria parvifolia, Pulsatilla patens, Seriphidium vaseyanum
flower
Flora of the Buffalo Peaks Wilderness Area and Vicinity.,
For additional information about this specimen, please contact: Jennifer Ackerfield, Head Curator of Biodiversity Collections (jennifer.ackerfield@botanicgardens.org)