Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Aphyllon fasciculatum [Orobanche fasciculata] Thalesia fasciculata] [Thalesia lutea]
- Family
- Orobanchaceae
- CommonName
- clustered broomrape
- Presence
- YES
- Status
- native
- EarliestDate
- 1935
- LatestDate
- 2015
- Ecosystem
- basin, foothill, montane
- Geobotanical
- SSawatch, Garitas, SSanjuans, NCristos
- Counties
- Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Hinsdale, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache
- Passes
- WildlifePreserves
- Great Sand Dunes
- Other Localities
- Comments
- Aphyllon fasciculatum is the most common broomrape in the Watershed. It is parasitic on several Watershed genera: Artemisia, Phacelia, and Eriogonum. Therefore it is usually found in the habitat of these plants, from stabilized sand dune, to dry, rocky foothills, on up into the montane. The two Lower Basin records are from the San Luis Hills. Clustered broom rape is present in all Western states, as well as the west Great Plains and around the Great Lakes. The species extends on down the Rio Grande drainage through New Mexico into west Texas. Note that the genus name Aphyllon was proposed by Adam C. Schneider (2016), who confines the genus Orobanche to Old World species.
- Annotation