Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Leymus cinereus [Elymus cinereus] [Elymus piperi] etc.
- Family
- Poaceae
- CommonName
- Great Basis wildrye
- Presence
- yes
- Status
- native
- EarliestDate
- 1881
- LatestDate
- 1991
- Ecosystem
- montane
- Geobotanical
- SSawatch, LBasin
- Counties
- Conejos, Rio Grande, Saguache
- Passes
- WildlifePreserves
- Other Localities
- PhotoRecords
- Comments
- NEED IN SITU PHOTOS. In the Watershed, Great Basin wildrye has been vouchered two times: from three miles west of Villa Grove (Saguache Co, 1935) and from the San Luis Hills (Conejos Co, 1999). (The two vouchers collected by G. Engelmann in 1881 and labeled "Rio Grande Co" are from Grand Co, CO). Apparently, Ackerfield does not accept the San Luis Hills voucher. Shaw (2008), however, marks both Saguache and Rio Grande counties. Laymus cinereus grows, according to Shaw, "on talus slopes and in canyon bottoms at low elevations to foothills." The USA distribution is all Western states. The Watershed records stands at the extreme southeast corner of this distribution, and would be the only ones in the Rio Grande drainage (Allyer et al., 2020 say the only two collections from New Mexico appear planted, and do not lie in the drainage).
- Annotation