Participant Info

Species

Cerastium fontanum subsp. vulgare [Cerastium vulgatum]

Family

Caryophyllaceae

CommonName

mouse-ear chickweed

Presence

YES

Status

exotic

EarliestDate

1947

LatestDate

2019

Ecosystem

basin, shrubland, foothill, montane

Geobotanical

SSawatch, SSanjuans, NCristos, UBasin, LBasin

Counties

Alamosa, Conejos, Hinsdale, Mineral, Saguache

Passes

WildlifePreserves

Baca

Other Localities

PhotoRecords

YES Rich Haswell: Rio Grande Co, San Francisco Cr 5 June 2014; Mineral Co, Tucker Ponds 23 July 2019

Comments

Cerastium fontanum is scattered around the Watershed foothills and montane, usually in ruderal ground, with only two Basin records: 2 miles NE of Alamosa (1986), and by the San Antonio River east of Manassa (1993). The 2014-2015 San Francisco Creek photorecords would add Rio Grande to counties indicated in Ackerfield (2022) and BONAP (2022). Mouse-ear chickweed, an exotic, is present in the Rio Grande drainage of New Mexico, with at least at one location farther down stream, in the Big Bend country of Texas.

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