Participant Info

Species

Eremogone fendleri [Arenaria fendleri]

Family

Caryophyllaceae

CommonName

Fendler’s sandwort

Presence

YES

Status

native

EarliestDate

1935

LatestDate

2021

Ecosystem

basin, shrubland, foothill, montane, subalpine, tundra

Geobotanical

SSawatch, Garitas, SSanjuans, Culebras, NCristos, LBasin

Counties

Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Hinsdale, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache, San Juan

Passes

Carnero, Cochetopa, Grayback, Music, South, Spring Creek, Stony

WildlifePreserves

Other Localities

PhotoRecords

YES Rich Haswell: Rio Grande Co, saddle just W of Del Norte 22 May 2021

Comments

In the Watershed, Fendler's sandwort is everywhere except in the flat Valley floor. The one Lower Basin collection is from the San Luis Hills. Note that Sharples (2017) found it only once in the South San Juan Wilderness, on the Alamosa River at Alamosa cpgd. The flower adapts to many habitats, including forest openings, meadows, rock ledges, and alpine rockfell. It is largely a Southern Rockies plant, found in Wyoming, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico, following the high country on both sides of the Rio Grande down to the Mexican border.

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