Participant Info

Species

Carex pityophila

Family

Cyperaceae

CommonName

loving sedge, pine-loving sedge

Presence

yes

Status

native

EarliestDate

1958

LatestDate

2014

Ecosystem

montane, subalpine

Geobotanical

SSawatch, Garitas, SSanjuans, NCristos

Counties

Alamosa, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache

Passes

Elwood

WildlifePreserves

Other Localities

PhotoRecords

Comments

NEED IN SITU PHOTOS. Loving sedge has been vouchered in the Watershed at widely separated locations, usually in montane pinyon-juniper or mixed conifer woods, but occasionally in dry meadows. The distribution of Carex pityophila in the lower USA is restricted to Colorado, northern New Mexico, and extreme southeast Utah. The species follows the Rio Grande drainage only through the northern third of New Mexico, no farther south. By the way, the specific epithet, "pityophila," means pine loving.

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