Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Eriogonum umbellatum
- Family
- Polygonaceae
- CommonName
- sulphur-flower buckwheat
- Presence
- YES
- Status
- native
- EarliestDate
- 1902
- LatestDate
- 2021
- Ecosystem
- foothill, montane
- Geobotanical
- SSanjuans, NCristos
- Counties
- Conejos, Costilla, Mineral, Saguache
- Passes
- Cumbres, La Veta, Poncha
- WildlifePreserves
- Other Localities
- Comments
- In the Watershed, for sulphur-flower buckwheat there are four locations: near La Veta Pass; south of Poncha Pass; south of Creede (by the Deep Creek trail); and near Cumbres Pass. In New Mexico, Eriogonum umbellatum is found only in Rio Arriba Co. In the USA, the Watershed locations mark the southeastern edge of the distribution, which ranges through all states west of the Great Plains. There are some 41 different varieties of this mid-elevation buckwheat, of which Colorado has 6 (according to Ackerfield 2022), of which the Watershed has 3 (according to SEINet): var. aureum, var. subaridum, and var. umbellatum.
- Annotation