Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Caragana arborescens
- Family
- Fabaceae
- CommonName
- Siberian pea, Sibernian pea shrub
- Presence
- YES
- Status
- exotic, escaped
- EarliestDate
- 1951
- LatestDate
- 2015
- Ecosystem
- basin, foothill, montane, ruderal
- Geobotanical
- SSanjuans, NCristos, UBasin
- Counties
- Alamosa, Conejos, Saguache
- Passes
- WildlifePreserves
- Blanca Wetlands
- Other Localities
- Alamosa (town)
- PhotoRecords
- YES Mary E. McDonald: Conejos Co, Hicks Canyon by old homestead, 18 July 2014 (in fruit), 12 June 2015 (in flower)
- Comments
- For Siberian pea there are five Watershed records, all likely cultivated plantings or escapes: Adams State campus (1951); near Terrace Reservoir, “apparently planted” by CCC ditch builders (1982); Baca NWR (2006); Blanca Wetlands (2004); and near an old homestead in Hicks Canyon, Conejos Co (2015). This last, a photorecord, would add Conejos to the counties indicated in Ackerfield (2022) and BONAP (2022). The USA range is represented by scattered locations in the Rocky Mountains and across the northern third of the country. The plant may well be considered invasive in the wetter and colder regions of the USA, but there is no evidence of that in the Watershed. An occurrence in Santa Fe Co, New Mexico marks the southernmost point of the USA distribution and of the Rio Grande drainage. (The humorous comment on "Siberian pea" in Allred et al. II, p. 420, 2020 is worth reading.)
- Annotation