Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Typha angustifolia
- Family
- Typhaceae
- CommonName
- narrowleaf cat-tail
- Presence
- MAYBE
- Status
- exotic
- EarliestDate
- 2003
- LatestDate
- 2003
- Ecosystem
- aquatic, foothill
- Geobotanical
- Garitas, UBasin
- Counties
- Rio Grande
- Passes
- WildlifePreserves
- Other Localities
- PhotoRecords
- Comments
- NEED IN SITU PHOTOS. There is only one Watershed record for this exotic cattail: Shaw Springs, a little north of Del Norte in Elephant Rocks, off Penitente Road (2003, J. Flaig coll). For decades Shaw Springs, a hot spring, was a recreational area with a swimming pool. Typha angustifolia is readily distinguished from the very common T. latifolia, but not so easily from the native T. domingensis. BONAP shows T. angustifolia present in the Rio Grande drainage of New Mexico from Bernalillo Co to Doña Ana Co but not farther north or south. T. domingensis has been recorded in the drainage from Rio Arriba Co, New Mexico (bordering the Colorado Watershed), all the way to the Gulf of Mexico—with no records from the Rio Grande watershed in Colorado. In Colorado it is predominantly a Front Range plant.
- Annotation