Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Stellaria longifolia [Alsine longifolia]
- Family
- Caryophyllaceae
- CommonName
- longleaf starwort
- Presence
- YES
- Status
- native
- EarliestDate
- 1898
- LatestDate
- 2021
- Ecosystem
- shrubland, montane
- Geobotanical
- SSawatch, Garitas, SSanjuans, NCristos
- Counties
- Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Hinsdale, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache, Archuleta
- Passes
- Elwood
- WildlifePreserves
- Baca, Great Sand Dunes
- Other Localities
- Comments
- In the Watershed longleaf starwort has been consistently and frequently collected from willow and cottonwood carrs in the montane, although also found by streams in abandoned Basin farmland (Baca NWR) and up into the foothills. Stellaria longifolia, S. longipes, and S. irrigua [umbellata] are the most common starworts in the Watershed. Furthermore, S. longifolia is the most widespread starwort in the USA, ranging from coast to coast, although not into the Deep South. The species follows the Rio Grande drainage down to Sierra Co, New Mexico, but no farther. Note that Stellaria longifolia and Pseudostellaria jamesiana are sometimes confused. They can readily be told apart by their pedicels: those of S. longifolia are glabrous; those of P. jamesiana are stipulate-glandular.
- Annotation