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Species
Glycyrrhiza lepidota [Glycyrrhiza glutinosa] [Liquivita lepidota]
Family
Fabaceae
CommonName
wild liquorice
Presence
YES
Status
native
EarliestDate
1911
LatestDate
2023
Ecosystem
basin, shrubland, foothill, montane, ruderal, urban
Geobotanical
Garitas, SSanjuans, NCristos, UBasin
Counties
Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Rio Grande, Saguache
Passes
WildlifePreserves
Alamosa, Baca
Other Localities
Del Norte
Comments
The native habitat of sweet liquorice is dry, grassy or rocky foothill and montante slopes, but it in the Watershed it has also taken to a variety of disturbed spaces: greasewood shrublands, railroad embankments, stock tanks, road sides, street sides, etc. It is mainly collected in the Basin or its foothills. In the USA Glycyrrhiza lepidota is everywhere west of the Mississippi except for Arkansas and Louisiana. It follows the Rio Grande drainage through New Mexico to the Big Bend country of Texas. Dispersal: Deer and pronghorns eat the leaves, and the seedpods, with hooked spines, attach to their fur.