Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Leymus salina [Elymus ambiguus var. salina] [Elymus salina] [Elymus strigosus] [Elymus villiflorus]
- Family
- Poaceae
- CommonName
- saline wildrye
- Presence
- maybe
- Status
- native
- EarliestDate
- 2003
- LatestDate
- 2003
- Ecosystem
- montane
- Geobotanical
- SSanjuans
- Counties
- Rio Grande
- Passes
- WildlifePreserves
- Other Localities
- PhotoRecords
- Comments
- NEED IN SITU PHOTOS. Saline wildrye has been collected only once from the Watershed, by Jeanette Flaig road side across from the South Fork Guard Station on Beaver Creek Road. The voucher is questionable because of the habitat, which for Leymus salina usually is rocky slopes and cliffs or dry plains. The location lies isolated to the east of the USA distribution, which centers in Utah and includes southeast California, parts of Nevada, Idaho, northern Arizona, south Wyoming, the northwest corner of New Mexico, and far western Colorado. This Watershed location is the only one for the entire Rio Grande drainage. Allred et al. (2020) point out that the specific epithet does not mean "saline" but refers to a place (Salina Pass, Utah).
- Annotation