Participant Info

Species

Rorippa sphaerocarpa [Nasturtium sphaerocarpum] [Radicula sphaerocarpa] [Rorippa obtusa var. sphaerocarpa]

Family

Brassicaceae

CommonName

roundfruit yellowcress

Presence

Yes

Status

native

EarliestDate

1937

LatestDate

2020

Ecosystem

basin, montane

Geobotanical

Garitas, UBasin

Counties

Alamosa, Mineral, Saguache

Passes

WildlifePreserves

Russell Lakes SWA

Other Localities

PhotoRecords

YES Rich Haswell: Saguache Co, growing in the drying edge of a lake in the Russell Lakes SWA 18 Sept 2019; edge of Beaver Reservoir 2 Sept 2020

Comments

For roundfruit yellowcress, there are only two vouchers from the Watershed: near Dry Gulch south of Creede (Mineral Co, 1937), and on the floodplain of the Rio Grande in Alamosa (Alamosa Co, 1997). Two more recent photorecords add to this: by a lake in the Russell Lakes SWA (Saguache Co, 2019) and by Beaver Creek Reservoir (Rio GrandeCo, 2020). The last would add Saguache and Rio Grande to the counties indicated in Ackerfield (2022) and BONAP (2022). The species is scattered through all Western states except for Washington and Montana. It is fairly common in the Rio Grande drainage of New Mexico down to Santa Fe Co, with one isolate record from El Paso, Texas.

Annotation

Yes