Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Anticlea elegans [Zigadenus elegans] [Zigadenus coloradoensis] [Zigadenus dilatatus]
- Family
- Melanthiaceae
- CommonName
- mountain death-camas, elegant camas
- Presence
- YES
- Status
- native
- EarliestDate
- 1900
- LatestDate
- 2019
- Ecosystem
- montane, subalpine, tundra
- Geobotanical
- Garitas, NCristos
- Counties
- Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Hinsdale, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache, Archuleta, San Juan
- Passes
- Carnero, Cochetopa, Elwood, Indian Creek, La Manga, Music, South, Spring Creek, Stony
- WildlifePreserves
- Other Localities
- Comments
- In the Watershed mountain death-camas is fairly cosmopolitan, growing in shaded woods as well as in open meadows, by streams, on rock ledges. It can vary in size depending on habitat. It is not recorded from the Culebras, but is present in the Cristos farther south in New Mexico. Anticlea elegans is the most wide-spread Anticlea in the USA, found in all western mountain regions and across the top of the nation. It follows the Rio Grande to west Texas.
- Annotation