University of Colorado Museum of Natural History Herbarium Vascular Plant Collection (COLO:V)
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Amelanchier utahensis Koehne
ROSACEAE
W. A. Weber
19387
1998-04-25
25 April 1998
R. Wittmann
United States, Colorado, Boulder, City of Boulder, N edge of town at foot of Lee Hill Road.
1737 meters
5700 ft
Low rounded hill of disintegrating Pierre Shale. The Amelanchier is locally abund. but restricted to stripes of vertically-oriented buried shale evidently retaining moisture longer than the more horizontally lying flakes which become very hot in summer...
Flr
Similar stripes of sandstone support localized stands of Mahonia repens.
For additional information about this specimen, please contact: J Ryan Allen, Biodiversity Informatics Manager (Database inquiries) (james.r.allen@colorado.edu)