Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Lycium barbarum [Lycium halimifolium] [Lycium vulgare]
- Family
- Solanaceae
- CommonName
- wolfberry, matrimony-vine
- Presence
- YES
- Status
- exotic
- EarliestDate
- 1983
- LatestDate
- 2022
- Ecosystem
- basin, shrubland, montane, ruderal, urban
- Geobotanical
- SSawatch, SSanjuans, NCristos
- Counties
- Rio Grande, Saguache
- Passes
- WildlifePreserves
- Other Localities
- Del Norte
- Comments
- In the Watershed wolfberry was first collected from the Upper Saguache Ranger Station in 1983 (just W of the town of Saguache). Since then, herbarium records of this exotic are few: Baca NWR (2006-2012), and 2 miles W of Center by Hwy 285 (2009). But currently Lycium barbarum can be found, unrecorded, along many highways and in towns in the upper Valley. In Del Norte there are large thickets by streets and old irrigation canals, prompting the town to try, unsuccessfully, to eradicate it. The photorecords from Del Norte (2014-2022) would add Rio Grande to counties indicated in Ackerfield (2022) and BONAP (2022). The species used to be planted as an ornamental, believe it or not. BONAP shows it scattered in every state of the USA except for Mississippi and Alabama. It has been recorded from a few locations, probably old ornamental plantings, in the Rio Grande drainage of New Mexico, but not farther down the river.
- Annotation