Participant Info

Species

Chenopodium hians [Chenopodium incognitum]

Family

Amaranthaceae

CommonName

hians goosefoot, gaping goosefoot

Presence

Yes

Status

native

EarliestDate

1971

LatestDate

1971

Ecosystem

foothill, montane

Geobotanical

SSawatch

Counties

Saguache

Passes

WildlifePreserves

Other Localities

PhotoRecords

Comments

NEED IN SITU PHOTOS. The Watershed has only one record of hians goosefoot, from the La Garitas west of Saguache, 1971. Weber and Wittmann say it is a Plains plant, but that is not borne out by distributions in Ackerfield and BONAP. There are scattered locations in most USA states west of the Great Plains. There are also records from Taos and Rio Arriba counties in New Mexico, bordering Colorado, with an isolated location in the Big Bend country of Texas. Difficulties in determination of Chenopodium hians are well known.

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