Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Hedysarum occidentale
- Family
- Fabaceae
- CommonName
- western sweetvetch, western chainpod
- Presence
- Yes
- Status
- native
- EarliestDate
- 1931
- LatestDate
- 2021
- Ecosystem
- montane, subalpine
- Geobotanical
- Garitas, SSanjuans, NCristos
- Counties
- Conejos, Hinsdale, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache, Archuleta, San Juan
- Passes
- South, Spring Creek, Stony, Stunner
- WildlifePreserves
- Russell Lakes
- Other Localities
- Comments
- Hedysarum occidentale is much more common in the San Juan River drainage, but it has been collected fairly frequently from the upper montane and subalpine of the western Watershed mountains (e.g. Stunner Pass in Conejos Co, 6 miles NW of the Rio Grande reservoir in Hinsdale Co). There is only one record from the Cristos (near the junction of Horsethief Basin and Cottonwood Creek trails, 2010). It is not found in the New Mexico or Texas Rio Grande drainage, so the Watershed locations mark the southeast corner of the USA distribution, which is Rocky Mountains up to the Canadian border, with an isolated population in the Olympic Peninsular of Washington, and along the Columbia River drainage.
- Annotation