Observation date: June 03, 2023
Submitted by: sandyleapt
Specimen type: Photograph
Observation notes: Consulted my Hinchliff Butterflies of Oregon atlas, most likely ampelos. Buildings and gardens around the National Wildlife Refuge Headquarters created by the CCC in the 1930s are a lovely oasis, the only trees and ornamental, non native shrubs around for miles. The refuge headquarters and irrigated gardens abut a pond, marshes and upland sagebrush salt desert scrub. This area received more precipitation that usual this year. One found in the gardens around the visitor center nectaring on a spirea flowering at the border between the sage brush scrub and the garden. Elevation approximately 4100 feet.
Status: Resident
Verified by: Ken Davenport
Verified date: June 25, 2023
Coordinator notes: This is ampelos which is now a California Ringlet subspecies. The Common Ringlet (tullia) is limited in North America to Alaska and a part of Canada based on recent genomic studies-Ken Davenport
