United States of America, Colorado, Mesa, Gateway Palisade Natural Area N of Gateway between CO hwy 141 (West Creek) & Dolores R.; West Creek tributaries draining E side of The Palisade.
38.702613 -108.953888
12 0677924E 4285763N
Certainty code: 1
1494 meters
4900 FT ca
Quaternary wind deposited sand and silt. In Pinus edulis-Sabina osteosperma community along dry creek-bed and on adjacent floodplain, with Psoralidium lanceolatum, Packera multilobata, Astragalus thompsonae, Ipomopsis congesta var. frutescens.
20ft. tree with trunk bore>1ft. diameter; relatively common.
For additional information about this specimen, please contact: Jennifer Ackerfield, Head Curator of Biodiversity Collections (jennifer.ackerfield@botanicgardens.org)