Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Danthonia spicata [Danthonia thermalis]
- Family
- Poaceae
- CommonName
- poverty oatgrass, poverty grass
- Presence
- maybe
- Status
- native
- EarliestDate
- 1989
- LatestDate
- 1999
- Ecosystem
- foothill, montane
- Geobotanical
- SSanjuans
- Counties
- Rio Grande
- Passes
- WildlifePreserves
- Other Localities
- PhotoRecords
- Comments
- NEED IN SITU PHOTOS. Poverty oatgrass has been vouchered once from the Watershed, from Rock Creek campground west of Monte Vista (Rio Grande Co, 1989). Shaw (2008) does not accept this record. Danthonia spicata is a very common oatgrass east of the Great Plains. It grows on rather poor, rocky soils, hence its name poverty grass. West of the Plains, there are scattered locations in most states, with a concentration running down the mesas and outwashes of the eastern Rockies. The species follows the Rio Grande drainage through most of New Mexico but no farther down stream.
- Annotation