Single Record

PhotoRecords: YES: Mary McDonald, Archuleta Co, near Cumbres pass, 2021; Mele Avery, Saguache Co, Valley View Hot Springs, 2022

Comments: Of houndstongue there are only six records from the Watershed. Two are from near La Veta Pass (Costilla Co, 1957, 1984), one from west of Cumbres pass (Archuleta Co, 2021), one from Valley View Hot Springs (Saguache Co, 2022, iNaturalist observation 125039153), one from just south of Del Norte (Rio Grande Co, 2024, iNaturalist observation #226481208), and one from Fort Garland (Costilla Co, 2024, iNaturalist observation #227401428). BONAP shows Saguache, Mineral, Hinsdale, and Alamosa counties, with no vouchers in SEINet. It may be that warmer weather is bringing this exotic to the Valley. In 2017 Mark Sharples conjectured that the species would likely to be "found in the study area on private land," that is, around the South San Juan Wilderness area of Archuleta and Conejos counties, and that is where the photorecord of 2021 found it. Cynoglossum officinale is on Colorado's B list of "noxious weeds." It is recorded from nearly all of Colorado, and all of the USA except for California, Texas, and the Deep South. In the Rio Grande drainage, It is recorded from northern New Mexico (Rio Arriba, Taos, and Colfax counties), but no farther south.