Participant Info

Species

Muhlenbergia pheoides [Lycurus phleoides] [Lyrurus setosus]

Family

Poaceae

CommonName

wolftail

Presence

yes

Status

native

EarliestDate

1988

LatestDate

2024

Ecosystem

foothill

Geobotanical

SSanjuans

Counties

Conejos

Passes

WildlifePreserves

Other Localities

La Botica

PhotoRecords

Comments

NEED IN SITU PHOTOS. Only two Watershed locations are recorded for this species of muhly, very close together: 3.5 miles ENE of Los Magotes (Conejos Co, 1988), and La Botica site (Conejos Co, 2024). Note that the first is determined as Lycurus phleoides, a name also maintained by SHAW (2008) and BONAP (2025). The habitat is dry juniper-community foothills. Muhlenbergia phleoides is a species largely of Arizona and New Mexico, with locations also in southern Utah and the Front Range and western slope of Colorado. The species follows the Rio Grande drainage through New Mexico down to and including the Big Bend region of Texas. According to POWO, the species occupies all of Mexico and Columbia, Peru, and Ecuador.

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