Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Echinocereus triglochidiatus [Echinocereus mojavensis]
- Family
- Cactaceae
- CommonName
- king’s crown, claret cup
- Presence
- Yes
- Status
- native
- EarliestDate
- 1912
- LatestDate
- 2018
- Ecosystem
- basin, foothill, montane
- Geobotanical
- SSawatch, Garitas, NCristos, LBasin
- Counties
- Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Rio Grande, Saguache
- Passes
- WildlifePreserves
- Great Sand Dunes, Rio Grande
- Other Localities
- La Botica
- PhotoRecords
- YES Rich Haswell: see Annotated Page.
- Comments
- In the Watershed, King's-crown cactus has been collected mainly from the foothills—the species likes a rocky soil and a relatively low elevation. The Lower Basin locations are the San Luis HIlls. Echinocereus trigochidiatus may be more common than collections indicate, due in part to the reluctance of botanist to gather vouchers of cactus infrequently met in the Watershed. Some of these vouchers may be E. coccineus in the sense of Marc Baker (2006), who treats the Colorado plants as E. mojavensis. However named, this desert Southwest cactus follows the Rio Grande drainage through New Mexico and on down past the Big Bend country of Texas.
- Annotation
- Yes