University of Colorado Museum of Natural History Herbarium Vascular Plant Collection (COLO:V)
00959932
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Iliamna grandiflora (Rydberg) Wiggins
MALVACEAE
Barry C. Johnston
sn
2007-07-02
2 July 2007
United States, Colorado, Ouray, Owl Creek Pass Road, west side, about 1.3 road miles east of the Forest Boundary, 410 m ENE of overlook turnoff.
38.18165 -107.60869 +-100m. WGS84
E797,053 N4,231,407; T45N R7W SEC2 SW¼ NW¼
The collector provided UTM seems to match the description and I have no reason to doubt its accuracy. RA; Georeferenced 29 January 2015
About 30 medium-sized to large plants on roadside fill, not in surrounding Douglas-fir-Engelmann spruce forest.
Flr & Frt
NAD83 Z12S. Possibly originated from seeds in or near borrow pit just E of the overlook, from which road material was mined when the road was built in the 1970s (before that the Owl Creek Pass road followed Owl Creek.) My hypothesis is that
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