Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Phacelia neomexicana
- Family
- Hydrophyllaceae
- CommonName
- New Mexico scorpion-weed
- Presence
- YES
- Status
- native
- EarliestDate
- 1939
- LatestDate
- 2014
- Ecosystem
- foothill, montane
- Geobotanical
- Garitas, SSanjuans, NCristos
- Counties
- Conejos, Costilla, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache
- Passes
- Carnero, La Veta
- WildlifePreserves
- Other Localities
- Comments
- This account of Phacelia neomexicana in the Watershed rests on about 20 records so named and accepted by SEINet. The Watershed range (both sides of the Valley) overlaps with P. alba, and clearly the overlap is due in part to problems in determination. Perhaps the surest differentiation between the two species is not color of corolla but instead size of mature seed. Ackerfield (2022) and BONAP (2022) believe all the Watershed vouchers are P. alba, since neither shows P. neomexicana in Colorado. The 2014 photorecord of P. neomexicana from Conejos Co is reasonable, however, since that species is present in New Mexico counties that border the Watershed. The species is well named, since its USA distribution (according to BONAP) is confined to New Mexico, with a few locations in extreme western Arizona. It follows the Rio Grande drainage in New Mexico to the Mexican border.
- Annotation