Single Record
Participant Info
- 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
- PhotoRecords
- YES Rich Haswell: Rio Grande Co, Monte Vista Wildlife Refuge 7 July 2016; Del Norte street side 4 Dec 2023 (seedpods)
- 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.
- Annotation