Eastern Mojave Vegetation Mesa Verde, Montezuma County, Colorado.
 
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See also: Mesa Verde National Park.

See also: Soda Canyon Tip-off Trail.

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Mesa Verde...in southwest Colorado…it is the NW edge of a great coal-bearing sandstone formation which dips beneath the San Juan Basin of New Mexico. It rises to 8000 ft…the escarpment on the N is 2000 ft high, overlooking the lower plateau, arid and desolate except for several irrigated valleys. The Mancos River skirts it on the south.


Elevation: 6765ft, 2062m.

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Literature Referring To This Location:

  • Post, Douglas M. 1956. Studies in the Gentianaceae: Frasera and Swertia of North America. Ph.D. dissertation. University of California, Berkeley. 1956..

Species collected at or near this location:

Gentianaceae

Frasera albomarginata S. Watson.

Total number of taxa: 1
Native Taxa:
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Listed Weeds:
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Date and time this article was prepared:8:24:06 PM, 10/15/2020.