Participant Info

Species

Limosella aquatica

Family

Scrophulariaceae

CommonName

water mudwort

Presence

YES

Status

native

EarliestDate

1952

LatestDate

2022

Ecosystem

aquatic, basin, foothill, montane

Geobotanical

SSanjuans, UBasin, LBasin

Counties

Alamosa, Conejos, Hinsdale, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache

Passes

WildlifePreserves

Alamosa, Russell Lakes

Other Localities

PhotoRecords

YES Rich Haswell: Rio Grande Co, pond in old gravel pit NE of Del Norte, 28 Aug 2020; by and in pond of unused gravel pit NW of Del Norte 18 Sept 2022; Conejos Co, below beaver dam, Conejos River 7 Sept 2021

Comments

Water mudwort is probably more common in the Watershed than the few collections indicate. Many of the recorded locations are on or near the Rio Grande; e.g., the bank of the Rio Grande near Alamosa (1952); west bank of the Rio Grande west of San Luis (1954); Alamosa WR (1974); Humphrey's Ranch below Creede (2014). The 2021 and 2022 photorecords northeast of Del Norte would add Rio Grande to counties indicated in Ackerfield (2022) and BONAP (2022). This aquatic has been collected from the Rio Grande drainage at least as far south as Santa Fe. These records lie on the southeast edge of the USA distribution.

Annotation