Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Gayophytum diffusum
- Family
- Onagraceae
- CommonName
- spreading groundsmoke
- Presence
- Yes
- Status
- native
- EarliestDate
- 1900
- LatestDate
- 2018
- Ecosystem
- foothill, montane
- Geobotanical
- SSawatch, SSanjuans, NCristos
- Counties
- Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Hinsdale, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache
- Passes
- Cumbres, Medano
- WildlifePreserves
- Other Localities
- La Botica
- PhotoRecords
- YES Mary E. McDonald Conejos Co, off FSR 101, 2 miles NW of Hick Canyon 14 June 2016; 28 Aug 2018
- Comments
- For Gayophytum diffusum there are less than 10 Watershed records, from both sides of the Valley and a variety of habitats, including mixed pinyon-juniper understory and grassy knolls. There are no records from the Culebras, but two from counties in New Mexico bordering on Colorado: Rio Arriba, Taos, and Colfax. According to BONAP, G. diffusum follows the Rio Grande drainage to Valencia Co, but no farther. These Rio Grande drainage locations lie at the southeastern corner of the USA distribution, which covers all states west of the Great Plains, including the Black Hills of South Dakota. The species is not easy to detect in the field or, for that matter, to determine in the study—which may partly account for the paucity of collections.
- Annotation