Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Sarcobatus vermiculatus [Batis vermiculata]
- Family
- Sarcobataceae
- CommonName
- greasewood, seepwood, saltbush
- Presence
- YES
- Status
- native
- EarliestDate
- 1924
- LatestDate
- 2018
- Ecosystem
- basin, shrubland, foothill, montane
- Geobotanical
- Garitas, SSanjuans, NCristos, UBasin, LBasin
- Counties
- Alamosa, Conejos, Rio Grande, Saguache
- Passes
- WildlifePreserves
- Baca, Blanca Wetlands, Monte Vista, Russell Lakes, San Luis Lakes
- Other Localities
- Alamosa (town)
- Comments
- Greasewood spreads thickly in the Upper Basin where agriculture and ranching have not eradicated it. It reaches up into the higher shrublands and occasionally into the pinyon-juniper ecosystem of the foothills. In the Lower Basin it has been reported from only one location, to the west of Mogote. Sarcobatus vermiculatus is present in all states west of the Great Plains. It follows the Rio Grande drainage to the tip of west Texas, but mote that in the Rio Grande canyon of New Mexico, it has been reported from only two or three locations. A couple of decades ago, this remarkable genus was assigned its own family (Behnke, 1997). Weber and Wittmann note that there are fossil records of its pollen from the Miocene.
- Annotation