Participant Info

Species

Corallorhiza trifida

Family

Orchidaceae

CommonName

early coralroot, yellow coralroot

Presence

YES

Status

native

EarliestDate

1988

LatestDate

2024

Ecosystem

montane

Geobotanical

SSanjuans, NCristos

Counties

Alamosa, Conejos, Saguache

Passes

WildlifePreserves

Great Sand Dunes

Other Localities

PhotoRecords

YES Katherine Zybko, Saguache Co, Medano Creek, 24 June 2024; Katherine Zybko, Mosca Creek trailhead, 25 June 2024

Comments

Early coralroot has only four recorded Watershed locations: Conejos Co, near Bear Lake (1988); Saguache Co, San Isabel Creek (1995); Saguache Co, Medano Creek (2024), and Alamosa Co, Mosca Creek trailhead (2024). New Mexico has a few collections of Corallorhiza trifida from Rio Arriba and Taos counties, on the Watershed border. There is also one collection from the southern New Mexico county of San Miguel, from Horse Thief Canyon on the Pecos River, which flows into the Rio Grande. That would mark the southernmost reach of this circumboreal plant.

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