Participant Info

Species

Carex egglestonii

Family

Cyperaceae

CommonName

Eggleston's sedge

Presence

yes

Status

native

EarliestDate

1984

LatestDate

2004

Ecosystem

subalpine, tundra

Geobotanical

Garitas, SSanjuans, Culebras

Counties

Costilla, Saguache, Archuleta

Passes

WildlifePreserves

Other Localities

PhotoRecords

Comments

NEED IN SITU PHOTOS. Eggleston's sedge of the New World has been vouchered only four times from the Watershed: Steels Canyon west of Villa Grove (Saguache Co, 1896); along Geban Creek, NNE of Creede (Saguache Co, 1984); Devils Park southeast of Leandro Lake (Costilla Co, 1986); and three air miles northeast of Chama Peak (Archuleta Co, 2004). Carex egglestonii is a higher elevation sedge of Utah and western Colorado, with only a few locations in southern Wyoming and New Mexico. The locations in the Watershed would be the only ones in the Rio Grande drainage save of a few occurrences in Rio Arriba Co, New Mexico.

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