Participant Info

Species

Trifolium pratense

Family

Fabaceae

CommonName

red clover

Presence

YES

Status

exotic

EarliestDate

1986

LatestDate

2018

Ecosystem

shrubland, foothill, montane, subalpine, ruderal, urban

Geobotanical

SSawatch, SSanjuans, Culebras, NCristos

Counties

Conejos, Costilla, Hinsdale, Mineral, Saguache, Archuleta

Passes

Medano

WildlifePreserves

Baca, Big Meadows Reservoir

Other Localities

Del Norte

PhotoRecords

YES Rich Haswell: Rio Grande, San Francisco Creek, beside trail, 18 July 2018

Comments

Red clover is an exotic that in the Watershed has thoroughly nativized into shrubland, montane woods, and subalpine mesic habitats, but it also thrives in ruderal habitats such as along trails and irrigation ditches. There are scattered collections of Trifolium pratense from both sides of the Valley but, surprisingly, the earliest collection date is 1972 (the earliest USA record is 1822, from Pennsylvania). It has been recorded from every USA state, and from the Rio Grande drainage as far as Doña Ana Co, New Mexico.

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