Participant Info

Species

Shepherdia argentea [Lepargyrea argentea] [Hippophaë argentea]

Family

Elaeagnaceae

CommonName

silver buffaloberry

Presence

Yes

Status

native

EarliestDate

1990

LatestDate

1992

Ecosystem

basin, ruderal

Geobotanical

UBasin

Counties

Rio Grande, Saguache

Passes

WildlifePreserves

Other Localities

PhotoRecords

Comments

NEED IN SITU PHOTOS. From the Watershed there are only two vouchers for Shepherdia argentea: Saguache Co, near Center, “domestic planting” (1992), and Rio Grande Co, 6 miles N and 3 miles W of Monte Vista "on ditch bank." This native buffaloberry is more commonly found on the western slope of Colorado. Unlike S. canadensis, the berries are edible and homeowners have sometimes cultivated it. This is a Rocky Mountain and northern Great Plains buffaloberry, with a disjunct population in western Nevada and southern California. The Watershed and locations in the Rio Grande drainage counties of Rio Arriba and Sandoval in New Mexico mark its southernmost reach in the USA.

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