Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Marsilea vestita [Zaluzianskia vestita] [Marsilea mucronata]
- Family
- Marsileaceae
- CommonName
- waterclover, water cloer
- Presence
- yes
- Status
- native
- EarliestDate
- 1873
- LatestDate
- 1997
- Ecosystem
- aquatic, basin
- Geobotanical
- UBasin, LBasin
- Counties
- Alamosa, Saguache
- Passes
- WildlifePreserves
- Alamosa, Baca
- Other Localities
- Alamosa (town)
- PhotoRecords
- Comments
- NEED IN SITU PHOTOS. Hairy waterclover has been vouchered from six different locations in the Watershed: in the Alamosa National Wildlife Refuge (Alamosa Co, 1986), on the Baca Land grant along Cottonwood Creek (Saguache, 1997), two miles north of the town of Alamosa (Alamosa Co, 1969), in the town of Alamosa (Alamosa Co, 1935), somewhere in Alamosa Co (1935), and somewhere in Saguache Co, gathered by J. Wolf, presumably in the Upper Basin (1873). The habitat of Marsilea vestita is pond margins, muddy ditches, slow-moving water, etc. Marsilea vestita can easily be mistaken for clover, although the parallel venation of the leaves will help place it in the fern family. The most widespread of USA water-clovers, M. vestita is found in the West, the Great Plains down through Texas, and along the Gulf of Mexico. Records show it following the Rio Grande drainage, spottily, through New Mexico and Texas to the Gulf. Note that no occurrence of M. vestita has been recorded from the Watershed for nearly 30 years.
- Annotation