Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Carex micropoda [Carex pyrenaica subsp. micropoda] [Carex crandallii] etc.
- Family
- Cyperaceae
- CommonName
- Pyrenean sedge
- Presence
- yes
- Status
- native
- EarliestDate
- 2001
- LatestDate
- 2001
- Ecosystem
- subalpine
- Geobotanical
- SSanjuans
- Counties
- Conejos
- Passes
- WildlifePreserves
- Other Localities
- PhotoRecords
- Comments
- NEED IN SITU PHOTOS. Pyrenean sedge has only one record from the Watershed: one mile southeast of Fish Lake (Conejos Co, 2001). The habitat is described as "Shallow soils developed between scattered volcanic breccia boulders and grusified gravel" (grusified: granite broken down into minerals such as quartz and feldspar). BONAP (2025) adds Alamosa, Costilla, Rio Grande, Mineral, and Hinsdale counties. There are a number of vouchers of Carex micropoda just west of the Continental Divide in the San Juan River drainage, and BONAP shows Rio Arriba and Taos counties in New Mexico. The species does not follow the Rio Grande drainage any farther south. In the lower USA, C. micropoda is largely a sedge of the Rocky Mountains on up to the Canadian border.
- Annotation