Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Trifolium fragiferum
- Family
- Fabaceae
- CommonName
- strawberry clover
- Presence
- yes
- Status
- exotic
- EarliestDate
- 2003
- LatestDate
- 2021
- Ecosystem
- basin, ruderal, urban
- Geobotanical
- UBasin, LBasin
- Counties
- Alamosa, Conejos
- Passes
- WildlifePreserves
- Other Localities
- Alamosa (town)
- Comments
- There are only three records of Trifolium fragiferum from the Watershed: in the lawn of the Walmart store in Alamosa (2003), in the floodplain of the Rio Grande where Hwy 142 crosses it east of Manassa (2021); and by the Rio Grande 12 km SE of Alamosa (2024, iNaturalist observation #243618148). These observations would add Alamosa and Conejos to counties shown for strawberry clover in Ackerfield (2022). This exotic clover, first recorded from Colorado in 1935, is sometimes cultivated—but not in the Valley. When escaped, it readily naturalizes. The USA distribution is suggested by scattered reports from most states west of the Mississippi, and even more scattered locations elsewhere. The presence of the species in the Rio Grande drainage is confined to the two reports from the Watershed; in 1995 it was seeded in Socorro Co, New Mexico, but did not persist, according to Allred et al. (2020).
- Annotation