Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Ranunculus trichophyllus [Batrachium aquatile; Ranunculus aquatilis]
- Family
- Ranunculaceae
- CommonName
- water-crowfoot
- Presence
- YES
- Status
- native
- EarliestDate
- 1900
- LatestDate
- 2021
- Ecosystem
- aquatic, basin, shrubland, foothill, montane, urban
- Geobotanical
- Garitas, SSanjuans, NCristos, UBasin, LBasin
- Counties
- Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Hinsdale, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache, Archuleta, San Juan
- Passes
- WildlifePreserves
- Baca, Blanca Wetlands, La Jara, Russell Lakes, San Luis Lakes
- Other Localities
- Alamosa (town)
- Comments
- Water crow-foot is a distinctive buttercup, put by many authorities into a different genus than Ranunculus. Ranunculus trichophyllus is found in natural ponds, stock ponds, standing ditch water, etc., from basin to high montane. In the Watershed it is not recorded yet from the Culebras, but many times from the Rio Grande Cristos of New Mexico. This seems an invasive plant to many people, although it is native, spread throughout the western USA and across the northern third of the nation. It follows the Rio Grande drainage in New Mexico nearly to the Mexican border, but no farther down stream. Note that some taxonomists split R. longirostris off from R. trichophyllus and some keep it within R. trichophyllus as a variety. Older collectors often referred to this species as R. aquatilis or Bactrachium aquatilis.
- Annotation