Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Rhinanthus minor [Rhinanthus crista-galli] [Rhinanthus rigidus]
- Family
- Orobanchaceae
- CommonName
- yellow-rattle, hayrattle, cockscomb
- Presence
- YES
- Status
- native
- EarliestDate
- 1936
- LatestDate
- 2022
- Ecosystem
- montane, ruderal
- Geobotanical
- SSanjuans
- Counties
- Conejos, Archuleta
- Passes
- WildlifePreserves
- Other Localities
- PhotoRecords
- YES Mary E. McDonald: Conejos Co FSR 250, 3 miles from junction with Hwy 17, 25 July 2018; 18 July 2022
- Comments
- In the Watershed, yellow-rattle has been observed only five times, four times from the Conejos River drainage in Conejos Co (1936, 1985, 2018, 2022), and once from the Rio Chama drainage in Archuleta Co (2014). BONAP (2022) shows Mineral Co, with no vouchers in SEINet. In the Watershed, Rhinanthus minor—hemiparasitic—naturally grows in moist meadows, although it is also found in disturbed ground, e.g., the 1985 collection from a campground by Spectacle Lake in Conejos Co. In the USA, Rhinanthus minor has a radically disjunct distribution, with a northern New England population; a northern Washington, Idaho, and Montana population; and a Colorado, northern New Mexico, and eastern Arizona population. Experts disagree on whether these populations represent different species, subspecies, or varieties. The Watershed Rhinanthus minor—present also in Rio Arriba, Taos, Colfax, and Sandoval counties of New Mexico—is considered by Allred et al. (2020) to be native, not adventive.
- Annotation