Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Linum perenne
- Family
- Linaceae
- CommonName
- perennial flax
- Presence
- yes
- Status
- exotic, escaped
- EarliestDate
- 1971
- LatestDate
- 2021
- Ecosystem
- montane, ruderal, urban
- Geobotanical
- Garitas
- Counties
- Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache
- Passes
- WildlifePreserves
- Other Localities
- La Botica, Del Norte
- PhotoRecords
- YES Richard Haswell: Rio Grande Co, Bear Creek 1.5 air miles NE of South Fork 8 June 2021
- Comments
- For nativied perennial flax, there are four Watershed records: near Buffalo campground, W of Saguache; Wagon Wheel Gap, S of Creede; near Lily Lake, W of Conejos; and in La Botica, La Jara canyon. This exotic blue flax was found in meadows in all these locations. (The one photorecord of Linum perenne near South Fork, 2021, is questionable.) BONAP does not accept the Watershed identifications, and Ackerfield 2020 shows only scattered counties in Colorado, only one near the Watershed (in Conejos Co). FNA cites Linum experts who report that most herbarium specimens recorded as L. perenne are quite likely L. lewisii var. lewisii. BONAP shows very scattered locations around the USA, with none from the Rio Grande drainage.
- Annotation