Participant Info

Species

Rosa nutkana [Rosa blanda] [Rosa woodsii]

Family

Rosaceae

CommonName

Nutka rose

Presence

YES

Status

native

EarliestDate

1911

LatestDate

2020

Ecosystem

foothill, montane, subalpine, ruderal, urban

Geobotanical

Garitas, SSanjuans, NCristos

Counties

Conejos, Hinsdale, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache

Passes

WildlifePreserves

Other Localities

Del Norte

PhotoRecords

YES Rich Haswell: Saguache Co, Carnero Creek 8 miles W of La Garita, 13 June 2020

Comments

For Rosa nutkana there are fewer than 10 voucher locations from the Watershed, coming from both sides of the Valley. But many determinations were too early to know of the recent re-establishment of R. nutkana as a species distinct from R. woodsii (Lewis & Ertter, 2007, 2010). R. nutkana is surely much more common and widely distributed in the Watershed than the herbarium records indicate, probably more widespread than R. woodsii. (As Emily Dickinson wrote in 1858, "Nobody knows this little rose"). The species continues on down the Rio Grande drainage into northern New Mexico. The USA distribution is disjunct. One range covers the the West coast from mid-California to Canada, and east through the Idaho panhandle to western Montana. The other distribution covers the Central and Southern Rockies.

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