Participant Info

Species

Carex aurea [Neskiza aurea] [Carex mutica] [Carex pyriformis]

Family

Cyperaceae

CommonName

golden sage

Presence

yes

Status

native

EarliestDate

1892

LatestDate

2024

Ecosystem

shrubland, foothill, montane, subalpine

Geobotanical

Garitas, SSanjuans, Culebras, UBasin

Counties

Conejos, Costilla, Hinsdale, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache

Passes

WildlifePreserves

Other Localities

PhotoRecords

Comments

NEED IN SITU PHOTOS. In the Watershed, golden sedge has been vouchered fairly consistently: in the South San Juans (e.g., near the Conejos River two miles south of Hidden Lake, Conejos Co, 1986), from the Upper Basin near creeks and springs from north and west of the Great Sand Dunes NPP (e.g. recent iNaturalist observations); and from the south Culebras (e.g. from the West Fork of Costilla Creek on Vermejos Park Ranch, Costilla Co, 2008). The elevation ranges from scrubland to subalpine; the habitat from wet meadows and springs to stream sides in woods. In the USA, Carex aurea is wide spread in all Western states and eastward across the northern fourth of the into Maine. The species follows the Rio Grande drainage sparsely through New Mexico but no farther down stream

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