Participant Info

Species

Oenothera villosa [Gaura villosa]

Family

Onagraceae

CommonName

hairy evening-primrose

Presence

YES

Status

native

EarliestDate

1934

LatestDate

2016

Ecosystem

basin, montane, ruderal, sanddunes

Geobotanical

SSanjuans, NCristos, UBasin

Counties

Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Hinsdale, Mineral, Saguache

Passes

WildlifePreserves

Baca, Great Sand Dunes

Other Localities

PhotoRecords

YES Rich Haswell: Mineral Co, Junction of Hwy 160 and Big Meadows Reservoir road 5 July 2016

Comments

Hairy evening-primrose has not often been collected from the Watershed, with 8 locations scattered arounding the Valley in a range of habitats—stabilized sanddune, shrubland, floodplain, road side, moist meadow, etc. Oenothera villosa continues on down the New Mexico Rio Grande drainage to the border with Mexico but no farther down stream. The flower is wide spread throughout the USA, absent only in southern California and much of the Deep South.

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