Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Amorpha fruticosa [Amorpha arizonica] [Amorpha occidentalis]
- Family
- Fabaceae
- CommonName
- false indigo, leadplant
- Presence
- maybe
- Status
- native
- EarliestDate
- 1985
- LatestDate
- 1985
- Ecosystem
- basin, ruderal
- Geobotanical
- UBasin
- Counties
- Alamosa
- Passes
- WildlifePreserves
- Other Localities
- PhotoRecords
- Comments
- NEED IN SITU PHOTOS. For the Watershed, there is only one record of leadplant, from Gilmore Ranch, about 5 miles WSW of Alamosa, in a cultivated field (1985). This may have been an escaped ornamental. The plant is native, however, and has been found the length of the Rio Grande drainage in New Mexico, up to and including Taos Co. It follows the drainage, spottily, down to the Gulf. Its USA distribution is concentrated in the Plains, the Midwest, and the South, with adventive occurrences in nearly every other state.
- Annotation