Participant Info

Species

Trifolium dasyphyllum

Family

Fabaceae

CommonName

shaggy-leaf clover

Presence

YES

Status

native

EarliestDate

1897

LatestDate

2016

Ecosystem

montane, subalpine, tundra

Geobotanical

SSawatch, Garitas, SSanjuans, Culebras, NCristos

Counties

Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Hinsdale, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache

Passes

Grayback, Music, Wolf Creek

WildlifePreserves

Other Localities

PhotoRecords

YES Rich Haswell: Mineral, Continental Divide trail north of Wolf Creek Pass 20 Aug 2016

Comments

Shaggy-leaf clover, named for its hairy leaves ("dasyphyllum"), has been frequently collected in the subalpine and tundra of all mountain-range regions of the Watershed. Trifolium dasyphyllum has a much more extensive range in the USA than T. brandegeei or T. attenuatum, ranging in the Rockies as far north as western Montana, but perhaps no farther south than the Colorado Watershed. Despite records stating otherwise, Allred et al. (2020) could find no certlfiable records from New Mexico.

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