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

Big Meadows Reservoir

Other Localities

PhotoRecords

YES Rich Haswell: Rio Grande Co, near Elwood pass 2 Sept 2019

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.

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