{"id":3436,"date":"2015-06-10T21:12:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T21:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/new-grahams-beardtongue-population-found\/"},"modified":"2021-06-08T21:52:57","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T21:52:57","slug":"new-grahams-beardtongue-population-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/2015\/06\/10\/new-grahams-beardtongue-population-found\/","title":{"rendered":"New Graham&#039;s Beardtongue Population Found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During a recent rare plant survey funded by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, CNHP botanist\/ecologist Delia Malone discovered a new population of Graham&#8217;s beardtongue (<i>Penstemon grahamii<\/i>) south of Rangely, Colorado. This rare plant is known from only six other occurrences in the state of Colorado. Graham&#8217;s beardtongue is found on raw shale slopes and knolls of the Green River Formation in Rio Blanco County, Colorado, as well as three counties in eastern Utah: Carbon, Duchesne, and Uintah.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\nThe bright white and caramel-colored shales of the Green River Formation, which often look like pieces of broken plates, give rise to highly basic soils. These soils support a very unique plant community dominated by dwarf shrubs like spiny greasebush (<i>Glossopetalon spinescens<\/i>) and shadcale saltbush (<i>Atriplex confertifolia<\/i>). Forbs species such as dragon milkvetch (<i>Astragalus lutosus<\/i>) and ephedra buckwheat (<i>Eriogonum ephedroides<\/i>) are also commonly found growing on Green River shales in occupied Graham&#8217;s beardtongue habitat. This species is considered Sensitive by the BLM. &nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5977\" src=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/Pen_grah_c.jpg\" width=\"268\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/Pen_grah_c.jpg 268w, https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/Pen_grah_c-201x300.jpg 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 268px) 100vw, 268px\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">Lured in by the bright yellow, protruding staminode called a beardtongue, a <i>Pseudomasaris <\/i>wasp lands inside the corolla of a rare Graham&#8217;s beardtongue outside of Rangely, Colorado.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a recent rare plant survey funded by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, CNHP botanist\/ecologist Delia Malone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":5977,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,36],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3436","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-botany","8":"category-rare-plants","9":"entry","10":"override"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}