Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Lobularia maritima
- Family
- Brassaciceae
- CommonName
- sweet alyssum
- Presence
- yes
- Status
- exotic
- EarliestDate
- 1978
- LatestDate
- 2022
- Ecosystem
- basin, foothill, urban
- Geobotanical
- SSanjuans, UBasin
- Counties
- Alamosa, Rio Grande
- Passes
- WildlifePreserves
- Other Localities
- Comments
- For sweet alyssum, the Watershed has three locations: the floodplain of the Rio Grande in Alamosa (1978); a yard in Del Norte (2020); and foothills just south of Del Norte (2022, iNaturalist observation #131102016). The plant in the Del Norte yard was an escapesthat did not persist long it survived only one winter). Lobularia maritima is a Eurasian exotic today is often cultivated from seed packets. Locations are widely scattered over the USA. The farthest down the Rio Grande drainage that it has been reported are from the contingent counties of Lea, New Mexico and El Paso, Texas.
- Annotation