Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Asplenium septentrionale [Acropteris septentrionalis] [Amesium septentrionale] etc.
- Family
- Aspleniaceae
- CommonName
- northern spleenwort, forked spleenwort
- Presence
- yes
- Status
- native
- EarliestDate
- 1997
- LatestDate
- 1997
- Ecosystem
- foothill
- Geobotanical
- Garitas
- Counties
- Saguache
- Passes
- WildlifePreserves
- Other Localities
- PhotoRecords
- Comments
- NEED IN SITU PHOTOS. Forked spleenwort has been vouchered only once from the Watershed, in the Elephant Rocks about ten miles south of La Garita (Saguache Co, 1997), described as "Rare in northeast-facing crack." The habitat fits that of Asplenium septentrionalis, which grows in cliff crevices and rock cracks. The center of the USA distribution is Colorado and New Mexico, with isolated locations in Oregon, California, Wyoming, Utah, Arizona, and South Dakota, with a very few, very isolated occurrences in several states farther east. The species follows the Rio Grande Drainage spottily through New Mexico—although more common in the north of the state, in counties such as Taos and Rio Arriba that border Colorado. It has a rare presence in Brewster Co of Texas, otherwise the species does not follow the drainage through Texas.
- Annotation