Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Persicaria pensylvanica [Polygonum pensylvanicum]
- Family
- Polygonaceae
- CommonName
- Pennsylvania smartweed, pinkweed
- Presence
- YES
- Status
- native
- EarliestDate
- 1983
- LatestDate
- 2008
- Ecosystem
- basin, foothill, montane, ruderal
- Geobotanical
- Garitas, SSanjuans, NCristos, UBasin
- Counties
- Rio Grande, Saguache
- Passes
- WildlifePreserves
- Other Localities
- Comments
- From the Watershed, there are only five records of Persicaria pensylvanica, from a variety of habitats: a wet hillside (La Veta Pass, Costilla Co, 1983); an escarpment seep (W of Saguache, Saguache Co, 1984; an irrigation ditch (Rio Grande Co, 1985); a relict pond (west of Crestone, Saguache Co, 2005), and an artesian well (Big Spring near Mosca, Alamosa Co, 2008). The photorecord adds a sixth, an abandoned gravel pit (northwest of Del Norte, Rio Grande Co, 2020). Pennsylvania smartweed is native to the eastern USA and introduced westward. Intermittently, it follows the Rio Grande drainage through New Mexico and Texas to the Gulf of Mexico.
- Annotation