Participant Info

Species

Callitriche hermaphroditica [Callitriche autumnales]

Family

Plantaginaceae

CommonName

northern water starwort

Presence

YES

Status

native

EarliestDate

1952

LatestDate

2021

Ecosystem

aquatic, basin, foothill

Geobotanical

SSanjuans, UBasin

Counties

Alamosa, Mineral, Rio Grande

Passes

WildlifePreserves

Other Localities

PhotoRecords

YES Rich Haswell: Rio Grande Co, Million Reservoir 8/28/2018; Rio Grande Co, pond in old gravel pit NE of Del Norte 8/22/2021

Comments

So far Callitriche hermaphroditica has recorded only four Watershed locations: the Rio Grande floodplain near the town of Alamosa (Alamosa Co), an irrigation ditch near Center (Rio Grande Co), a pond in a gravel pit (Rio Grande Co), and Humphrey’s ranch south of Wagon Wheel Gap (Mineral Co). It is probably more wide spread in the Valley than this scant record suggests. BONAP shows scattered records in all Western states of the USA, and across the northern Plain to the Great Lakes. It follows the Rio Grande drainage only two counties into New Mexico,

Annotation