Participant Info

Species

Carex limosa [Facolos limosa] [Trasus limosus] [Carex elegans] [Carex fuscocupera] etc.

Family

Cyperaceae

CommonName

bog sedge, mud sedge, shore sedge

Presence

yes

Status

native

EarliestDate

1945

LatestDate

2014

Ecosystem

subalpine

Geobotanical

SSanjuans, Culebras

Counties

Conejos, Costilla

Passes

WildlifePreserves

Other Localities

PhotoRecords

Comments

NEED IN SITU PHOTOS. Bog sedge has been vouchered from only two high-elevation areas in the Watershed: from the high lakes west of Platoro (Conejos Co, 1945), and from near Glacier Lakes on the Vermejo Park Ranch (Costilla Co, 2014). This is a distinctive sedge, sometimes forming mats in lakes, that in the past taxonomists have placed into different genera. Its distribution in the lower USA states covers, in a scattered way, all Western states except for Arizona and New Mexico, and around the Great Lakes eastward to upper New England. The locations in the Watershed are the only ones, so far, recorded from the Rio Grande drainage.

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