Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Parthenocissus quinquefolia [Hedera quinquefolia] [Parthenocissus inserta] [Vitis inserta]
- Family
- Vitaceae
- CommonName
- Virginia creeper, Victoria creeper, five-finger ivy
- Presence
- YES
- Status
- adventive
- EarliestDate
- 2006
- LatestDate
- 2017
- Ecosystem
- shrubland, foothill, urban
- Geobotanical
- SSanjuans, NCristos
- Counties
- Alamosa, Rio Grande, Saguache
- Passes
- WildlifePreserves
- Other Localities
- PhotoRecords
- YES Rich Haswell: Rio Grande Co, Del Norte, covering side of brick building on main street 4 July 2017
- Comments
- Parthenocissus quinquefolia is a vine native to the East coast and adventive to Colorado. It has been cultivated to cover the sides of buildings and to adorn house trellises in the Watershed, where it has no trouble surviving Valley weather and elevation. Near Del Norte it can be seen spread to fence rows, and it covers the side of an old brick building on main street (Hwy 160). These occurrences would add Rio Grande to counties indicated in Ackerfield (2022) and BONAP (2022). Note that there is a disparity between vouchered records and photorecords. Judging from BONAP, the Watershed locations are the only ones in the entire Rio Grande drainage. But iNaturalist has many observations running down the Rio Grande drainage of New Mexico to the border with Mexico—and indeed on down to the Big Bend country of Texas.
- Annotation