Participant Info

Species

Asparagus officinalis

Family

Asparagaceae

CommonName

asparagus

Presence

Yes

Status

exotic, escaped

EarliestDate

1937

LatestDate

2017

Ecosystem

shrubland, foothill, montane, ruderal, urban

Geobotanical

SSanjuans, UBasin, LBasin

Counties

Conejos, Costilla, Rio Grande, Saguache

Passes

WildlifePreserves

Baca, Russell Lakes

Other Localities

Alamosa (town), Del Norte

PhotoRecords

YES Rich Haswell: Rio Grande Co, Del Norte, streetside, 6 June 2014; Russell Lakes SWA 8 Sept 2017

Comments

As in every state of the USA, in the Watershed Basin domestic asparagus often escapes. It is remarkably persistent, for instance thriving in ditches by abandoned and sometimes disappeared farm houses (it spreads by rhizomes as well as seeds). Plants have been recorded in the Rio Grande drainage down nearly to the Big Bend country of Texas.

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