Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Rumex acetosella
- Family
- Polygonaceae
- CommonName
- sheep’s sorrel, red sorrel
- Presence
- Yes
- Status
- exotic
- EarliestDate
- 2013
- LatestDate
- 2019
- Ecosystem
- montane
- Geobotanical
- SSanjuans
- Counties
- Conejos, Mineral
- Passes
- Medano, Wolf Creek
- WildlifePreserves
- Other Localities
- Comments
- Surprisingly, there are only a few records for sheep's sorrel from the Watershed. Hobie Dixon found it in Medano canyon north of the Great Sand Dunes in 1975, 1981, and 1984. M. T. Sharples found it “13 miles SSE of Platoro” in 2013 in Conejos Co (not Rio Grande Co, as one label indicates). J. M. André recorded it from along the Lobo Overlook road at Wolf Creek pass in 2014. The latest observations (2019) are photorecords from populations also along roads, by Tucker Ponds and Big Meadows Reservoir in Mineral Co. Rumex acetosella is an exotic that has has spread into every USA state. It follows the Rio Grande drainage to Bernalillo Co, New Mexico, but not farther south.
- Annotation
- Yes