Participant Info

Species

Oxytropis deflexa var. pulcherrima [Oxytropis deflexa var. deflexa]

Family

Fabaceae

CommonName

nodding locoweed

Presence

YES

Status

native

EarliestDate

1999

LatestDate

2020

Ecosystem

basin, shrubland, foothill, montane, subalpine, tundra

Geobotanical

SSawatch, Garitas, Culebras, NCristos, UBasin, LBasin

Counties

Conejos, Costilla, Hinsdale, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache, San Juan

Passes

North, Stony

WildlifePreserves

Other Localities

PhotoRecords

YES Rich Haswell: Saguache Co, North Pass Hwy 114, 22 June 2017

Comments

In the Watershed this variety of nodding locoweed (usually identified as Oxytropis deflexa var. deflexa) is confined to a few high-altitude locations. Many are along the Continental Divide in Hinsdale, San Juan, and Saguache counties, but there are a few records from the Culebras in Costilla Co. In the USA this variety is found only in southwestern Colorado and southeastern Utah. Heil, O'Kane, Reeves, and Clifford (2013) checked the types of Oxyropis deflexa var. deflexa from Siberia and determined that the Colorado occurrences noted here do not belong to that variety.

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