Single Record

Participant Info

Species
Carex gravida [Carex lunelliana]
Family
Cyperaceae
CommonName
heavy-fruited sedge, heavy sedge, long-awned bracted sedge
Presence
maybe
Status
native
EarliestDate
2017
LatestDate
2017
Ecosystem
shrubland, foothill
Geobotanical
SSanjuans
Counties
Conejos
Passes
WildlifePreserves
Other Localities
La Botica
Comments
NEED IN SITU PHOTOS. Heavy-fruited sedge has been vouchered only once from the Watershed, in the La Botica site above La Jara Creek (Conejos Co, 2017). The identification is accepted by Ackerfield (2022) but not by BONAP (2025). Carex gravida is largly a species of the Great Plains and upper Midwest in the lower USA states. The species has been recorded from New Mexico in the northwestern corner of the state, not in the Rio Grande drainage. So the Conejos Co record of the Watershed may be the only one, so far, in that drainage.