Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Gypsophila elegans
- Family
- Caryophyllaceae
- CommonName
- baby’s breath
- Presence
- yes
- Status
- exotic
- EarliestDate
- 2013
- LatestDate
- 2020
- Ecosystem
- foothill, ruderal, urban
- Geobotanical
- SSanjuans
- Counties
- Rio Grande
- Passes
- WildlifePreserves
- Other Localities
- Del Norte
- Comments
- Baby's breath is a cultivated exotic that been used in highway reseeding projects and often as part of flower seed packets. It has escaped in other parts of Colorado (and the USA), but whether it has done so and persisted in the Watershed needs verification. The photorecords of Gypsophila elegans (Del Norte, 2017-2020) are of a seed-packet plant that bloomed in 2016 and persisted as a volunteer for four more years, in a flower garden in Del Norte. There are no other records of it in the USA Rio Grande drainage. Note that this species is not the "gyp" used by florists in flower bouquets, Gypsophila paniculata, which also has been recorded as escaping in the Watershed.
- Annotation