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Participant Info

Species
Ranunculus macounii
Family
Ranunculaceae
CommonName
Macoun’s buttercup
Presence
YES
Status
native
EarliestDate
1929
LatestDate
2018
Ecosystem
basin, shrubland, foothill, montane, ruderal
Geobotanical
SSawatch, SSanjuans, NCristos, LBasin
Counties
Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Hinsdale, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache
Passes
La Veta, Wolf Creek
WildlifePreserves
Baca
Other Localities
Comments
Ranunculus macounii has been fairly often collected in the Watershed, by streams shaded with aspen or willow, sometimes by irrigation ditches or farm culverts. It has not been collected from the Culebras. But it has so in New Mexico, from the Cristos and San Juans as well as the canyon of the Rio Grande itself. The farthest down stream in the Rio Grande drainage may be Otero Co, New Mexico. Its main USA distribution is all states west of the Great Plains, but not most of California, west Nevada or south Arizona.