Participant Info

Species

Astragalus brandegeei

Family

Fabaceae

CommonName

Brandegee’s milkvetch

Presence

YES

Status

native

EarliestDate

1952

LatestDate

2014

Ecosystem

basin, foothill, montane

Geobotanical

SSawatch, Garitas, SSanjuans, LBasin

Counties

Conejos, Costilla, Mineral, Saguache

Passes

WildlifePreserves

Other Localities

PhotoRecords

Anders Hastings: Saguache Co, by Hwy 114 near Buffalo Pass Cpgd, 3 July 2024; Rich Haswell: Rio Grande Co, Middle San Francisco Creek, 2 July 2016

Comments

From the Watershed, there are a total of nine rather disjunct locations for Brandegee's milkvetch, including south of Creede (Mineral Co), west of Antonitos (Conejos Co), northwest of Saguache near Buffalo Pass cpgd (Saguache Co)—all in meadows and grassy slopes. Some herbaria protect the location data. In the USA the flower is largely confined to southern Utah, northeast Arizona, and west New Mexico, where it follows the Rio Grande drainage not quite to the Mexican border.

Annotation