Participant Info

Species

Salvia reflexa [Salvia lancifolia]

Family

Lamiaceae

CommonName

Rocky Mountain sage

Presence

YES

Status

native

EarliestDate

1915

LatestDate

2024

Ecosystem

basin, foothill, ruderal

Geobotanical

SSanjuans, UBasin, LBasin

Counties

Conejos, Costilla, Rio Grande, Saguache

Passes

WildlifePreserves

Other Localities

PhotoRecords

YES Mary E. McDonald, Conejos Co, beside Hwy 17 between Mogote and Fox Creek, cliff side 1 Oct 2020

Comments

So far there are 10 herbarium vouchers for Salvia reflexa—the Watershed's only known sage—all from the Basin except for one labeled loosely, “road west of Saguache” (Saguache Co, 1916). The latest voucher is from the Pinyon Hills, “Roughly 2.5 miles west of Rio Grande River” (Conejos Co, 1999). The most recent photorecord is from Smith Reservoir south of Blanca (Costilla Co, 2024, iNaturalist observation #241219907). The 2020 photorecord from west of Mogote in Conejos Co clearly extends the Watershed distribution into the foothills. Mainly S. reflexa is a Great Plains, Rocky Mountain, and desert Southwest species. It follows the Rio Grande drainage down to the Big Bend country of Texas.

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