Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Peritoma multicaulis [Cleome multicaulis] [Cleomella multicaulis]
- Family
- Cleomaceae
- CommonName
- Mexican beeplant
- Presence
- YES
- Status
- native
- EarliestDate
- 1875
- LatestDate
- 2020
- Ecosystem
- basin
- Geobotanical
- UBasin, LBasin
- Counties
- Alamosa, Costilla, Rio Grande, Saguache
- Passes
- WildlifePreserves
- Baca, Blanca Wetlands, Great Sand Dunes, Monte Vista, Russell Lakes, San Luis Lakes
- Other Localities
- PhotoRecords
- YES Rich Haswell: Blanca Wetlands 18 Sept 2020
- Comments
- Dates and locations are protected, but in the Watershed Mexican beeplant is actually quite common in alkaline playas of the Upper and Lower Basin, sometime in large strands around the edge. It may have been first collected in 1875 by Brandegee (collection data are protected). It occurs in small isolated locations in Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona, and Texas. In New Mexico it has not been seen since 1851, so deserves the epithet "endangered" there—although perhaps not other places. Note that the modelling of Decker, et al. (2021) suggests that a likely Watershed area to find more of the plant lies "in the closed basin and greasewood flats east of Saguache Creek."
- Annotation