Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Poa secunda [Poa sandbergii] [Poa ampla] [Poa brachyglossa] etc.
- Family
- Poaceae
- CommonName
- Sandberg bluegrass, secund bluegrass, alkali bluegrass
- Presence
- yes
- Status
- native
- EarliestDate
- 1986
- LatestDate
- 2024
- Ecosystem
- montane, subalpine, tundra
- Geobotanical
- SSawatch, Garitas, SSanjuans, Culebras, NCristos
- Counties
- Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Hinsdale, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache, San Juan
- Passes
- Elwood, Hayden, Music, Stony
- WildlifePreserves
- Other Localities
- PhotoRecords
- Comments
- NEED IN SITU PHOTOS. Sandberg bluegrass has been vouchered often, usually at higher montane or subalpine levels, in all mountain ranges of the Watershed. Poa secunda prefers dry mountain grassy meadows but can occupy forest openings and reach up into dry alpine slopes. In the USA P. secunda is a very common grass found in nearly every Western county. It follows the Rio Grande drainage two-thirds of the way through New Mexico, no farther down stream. Allred et al. (2020) say that P. secunda is a complex of as many as 45 apomictic forms, "most of which have been described as species."
- Annotation