Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Trifolium brandegeei
- Family
- Fabaceae
- CommonName
- Brandegee’s clover
- Presence
- Yes
- Status
- native
- EarliestDate
- 1939
- LatestDate
- 2026
- Ecosystem
- montane, subalpine, tundra
- Geobotanical
- SSanjuans
- Counties
- Conejos, Mineral, Rio Grande, Archuleta
- Passes
- Elwood, Grayback, Stunner, Wolf Creek
- WildlifePreserves
- Other Localities
- Comments
- Brandegee's clover prefers mesic conditions—stream banks and snow melt meadows—and is found in the subalpine and alpine, only on occasion in the montane. In the Watershed, it has been collected only from the south San Juans. In New Mexico, the few collections, all from the Rio Grande watershed, come from the Cristos north of Taos. The USA distribution is confined to these few collections from New Mexico (down to Santa Fe Co) and more numerous ones from SW Colorado. plants often form groups connected by horizontal rhizomes. If one member of the group finds moisture with an especially long taproot,, the moisture spreads to other members. This may explain why locations at the base of Grayback Mt had groups of inflorescing T. brandegeei when no other flora could be found flowering due to the extreme drought and minimal snow melt the area had suffered for seven months (Rio Grande Co, 1 Aug 2026).
- Annotation