Participant Info

Species

Lobularia maritima

Family

Brassicaceae

CommonName

sweet alyssum

Presence

yes

Status

exotic

EarliestDate

1978

LatestDate

2024

Ecosystem

basin, foothill, urban

Geobotanical

SSanjuans, UBasin

Counties

Alamosa, Rio Grande

Passes

WildlifePreserves

Other Localities

PhotoRecords

YES Rich Haswell: Rio Grande Co, Del Norte yard, 22 Aug 2020

Comments

For sweet alyssum, the Watershed has four locations: the floodplain of the Rio Grande in Alamosa (1978); a yard in Del Norte (2020); foothills just south of Del Norte (2022, iNaturalist observation #131102016); and South Fork (iNaturalist observation #225384370). The plant in the Del Norte yard was an escape that did not persist long, surviving 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.

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