Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Tamarix chinensis [Tamarix ramosissima] [Tamarix pentandra]
- Family
- Solanaceae
- CommonName
- salt-cedar, Chinese tamarisk, five-stamen tamarisk
- Presence
- YES
- Status
- exotic, noxious
- EarliestDate
- 1952
- LatestDate
- 2022
- Ecosystem
- basin, shrubland
- Geobotanical
- UBasin
- Counties
- Alamosa, Saguache
- Passes
- WildlifePreserves
- Baca
- Other Localities
- Alamosa (town)
- PhotoRecords
- Comments
- NEED IN SITU PHOTOS. In the Watershed salt-cedar is a planted exotic that has escaped and persisted in a few locations, such as on the Gilmore ranch 5.5 air miles NW of Alamosa (1985) or by the road to a former cattle ranch in the Baca NWR (2006, 2012). The earliest record is the Adams State College campus (1952). The latest may be between Center and Hooper (Sept 2022, iNaturalist observation 135676789). It is on Colorado's B list of "noxious weeds." While there is little evidence of deleterious invasion of the plant in the Watershed, the story is different in New Mexico, where it can be found in "waterways, arroyos, lakeshores, and similar wetlands and riparian drainages throughout the state" (Allred et al. 2020). It follows the Rio Grande drainage down to the Gulf. Note that distinguishing between T. chilensis and T. ramosissima is difficult to begin with and further hampered by hybridization between the two species. See Tamarix ramosissima.
- Annotation