Participant Info

Species

Lysimachia maritima [Glaux maritima] [Glaucoides maritima]

Family

Myrsinaceae

CommonName

sea milkwort, black saltwort

Presence

Yes

Status

native

EarliestDate

1935

LatestDate

2024

Ecosystem

basin

Geobotanical

UBasin, LBasin

Counties

Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Saguache

Passes

WildlifePreserves

Baca, Great Sand Dunes, Russell Lakes

Other Localities

PhotoRecords

YES Rich Haswell: Saguache Co, along road marking the north edge Russell Lakes Wildlife Preserve 11 July 2016

Comments

Of Lysimachia maritima there are only 8 records:—all from the Valley floor or close to it; e.g., just W of Del Norte; near the town of Blanca; 8 miles south of Alamosa; in the Baca NWR; in the Russell Lakes SWA; near La Jara (1939-2016). The latest records are from southwest of the Great Sand Dunes NPP in unfarmed terrain (26 June 2022; iNaturalist observation #125099881) and in the Russell Lakes SWA (19 Sept 2024, iNaturalist observation #244067711). These scanty occurrences may represent an example of a flower severely reduced by agriculture and ranching in the Watershed. The 2016 photorecord was taken of plants in a ditch on the north boundary of the Russell Lakes SWA and so not sprayed by the county. So far the Watershed locations for this species are the only ones in the entire Rio Grande drainage.

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