Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Yucca harrimaniae
- Family
- Asparagaceae
- CommonName
- Harriman’s yucca
- Presence
- maybe
- Status
- native
- EarliestDate
- 1943
- LatestDate
- 2004
- Ecosystem
- foothill, montane
- Geobotanical
- Garitas, NCristos
- Counties
- Conejos, Rio Grande, Saguache
- Passes
- WildlifePreserves
- Hot Creek, Rio Grande
- Other Localities
- La Botica
- PhotoRecords
- Comments
- NEED IN SITU PHOTOS The very few Watershed records of Harriman's yucca may be questioned. Identification is difficult, in part because of hybridization. Weber and Wittmann say Y. harrimaniae is known on the Eastern slope only at Cochetopa Pass (1984, Jennings coll), but there are no vouchers from east of that pass, that is, in the Watershed. Ackerfield (2022) shows Rio Grande, Conejos, and Saguache counties, accepting SEINet records (e.g., east of Mogote cpgd, Conejos Co, 1986; Limekiln Peak, Rio Grande Co, 2004; Cotton Creek, Saguache Co, 1943). Allred et al. (2020) say that the records of "Yucca harrimaniae" from New Mexico are misdetermined, being Y. baileyi or hybrids thereof. Primarily Y. harrimaniae is a Southwest plant of Nevada, Arizona, and Utah, with an extension into west-slope Colorado.
- Annotation