Participant Info

Species

Carex macloviana [Vignea macloviana] [Carex festiva]

Family

Cyperaceae

CommonName

brown sedge, Falkland Island sedge

Presence

yes

Status

native

EarliestDate

1986

LatestDate

2014

Ecosystem

montane, subalpine

Geobotanical

Garitas, Culebras

Counties

Costilla, Hinsdale

Passes

WildlifePreserves

Other Localities

PhotoRecords

Comments

NEED IN SITU PHOTOS. Brown sedge has been vouchered only twice from the Watershed: one mile southeast of Leandro Park in a subalpine meadow (Costilla Co, 1986), and a little north of the Rio Grande Reservoir near the Rio Grande in the drainage area of a road-side spring (Hinsdale Co, 2014). World wide, Carex maclovians has a wide-spread distribution with large gaps, including the Pacific countries of South America, Scandinavia, Alaska, and Newfoundland. In the lower USA states, it is found in the Rockies of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico, where (according to BONAP) it follows the Rio Grande drainage to the Texas border but not into Texas. Note that Allred et al. (2020) shows it recorded only from three counties bordering Colorado (Rio Arriba, Taos, and Colfax), where it is "rare."

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