Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Juniperus monosperma [Juniperus gymnocarpa] [Juniperus mexicana var. monosperma] [Juniperus occidentalis var. monosperms] [Sabina monosperma]
- Family
- Cupressaceae
- CommonName
- one-seed juniper
- Presence
- Yes
- Status
- native
- EarliestDate
- 1857
- LatestDate
- 2022
- Ecosystem
- montane
- Geobotanical
- SSawatch, SSanjuans, NCristos
- Counties
- Conejos, Costilla, Rio Grande, Saguache
- Passes
- WildlifePreserves
- Other Localities
- Comments
- NEED IN SITU PHOTOS. In the Watershed there are only four vouchers of one-seed juniper, widely dispersed: Cat Creek Road in Conejos Co; north of Horseshoe Mountain in Rio Grande Co; Isabel Creek, north Cristos, Saguache Co; northwest of Saguache, south Sawatch Range, Saguache Co. There are a number of recent photorecords identified as "Juniperus monosperma" in iNaturalist, from the foothills of the Cristos, but they lack the detail needed to definitively determine the species; e.g., leaf glands and edge of scale leaves. But one plant, just southeast of Fort Garland (Costilla Co, 2022), appears correctly determined (iNaturalist observation #118692771). The center of the USA range is Arizona and New Mexico, where the species follows the Rio Grande drainage down to Mexico and farther east to the Big Bend country of Texas. It is quite common in New Mexico, right up to the Colorado border, and may be under-reported in the Watershed.
- Annotation