Participant Info

Species

Berberis fendleri [Mahonia fendleri]

Family

Berberidaceae

CommonName

Fendler’s barberry

Presence

YES

Status

native

EarliestDate

1891

LatestDate

2018

Ecosystem

foothill, montane

Geobotanical

SSanjuans, LBasin

Counties

Conejos, Hinsdale, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache

Passes

Cumbres

WildlifePreserves

Coller, Great Sand Dunes, Rio Grande

Other Localities

La Botica

PhotoRecords

YES Rich Haswell: Rio Grande Co, Million Reservoir in fruit 26 Aug 2018

Comments

In the Watershed Fendler's barberry has been collected only from the south San Juans—except, oddly, in the earliest record (1891), from a ranch on the Rio Grande near the New Mexico border in Conejos Co (planted?). In the USA, Berberis fendleri has a distribution confined only to Colorado, New Mexico, and southeast Utah. It intermittently follows the Rio Grande drainage in New Mexico to Doña Ana Co but no farther.

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