Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Salix exigua
- Family
- Salicaceae
- CommonName
- coyote willow, narrowleaf willow
- Presence
- YES
- Status
- native
- EarliestDate
- 1898
- LatestDate
- 2020
- Ecosystem
- basin, shrubland, foothill, montane, ruderal, urban, sanddunes
- Geobotanical
- SSawatch, Garitas, SSanjuans, Culebras, NCristos, UBasin, LBasin
- Counties
- Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Hinsdale, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache, Archuleta
- Passes
- WildlifePreserves
- Baca, Great Sand Dunes, Russell Lakes
- Other Localities
- Alamosa (town), Del Norte
- Comments
- Coyote willow is the most common Salix on banks of Basin streams, following them up into the foothills and lower montane. Ranchers and county agents go to great length, usually with herbicides, to eradicate it, all to moderate avail. In the USA, It has been recorded from nearly every county west of the Great Plains. It follows the Rio Grande drainage through New Mexico and then, sporadically, to the Gulf of Mexico. Note that both Bean (1964) and Dixon (2012) say that the town of Jaroso (Costilla Co), where Salix exigua and other willows are common, derives its name from the Spanish jara, meaning willow. The more wide-spreading meaning of jara, however, is thorny bush. Both meanings fit the locale.
- Annotation