Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Chorispora tenella
- Family
- Brassicaceae
- CommonName
- blue mustard, musk mustard, cross flower
- Presence
- Yes
- Status
- exotic
- EarliestDate
- 2014
- LatestDate
- 2021
- Ecosystem
- foothill, ruderal, urban
- Geobotanical
- SSanjuans
- Counties
- Rio Grande
- Passes
- WildlifePreserves
- Other Localities
- Alamosa (town), Del Norte
- Comments
- Currently there are no herbarium vouchers of blue mustard for the Watershed. But this notorious exotic was photographed on the street verges of Del Norte in 2014, and it has been common there in early spring ever since. Chorispora tenella probably occurs in other towns in the Valley. BONAP, always the best source for distribution of fast-moving exotic and adventive plants, shows C. tenella widely present in all Western and Plains states, with a scattering of locations farther east. The flower has been recorded from the Rio Grande drainage down through New Mexico to far west Texas.
- Annotation
- Yes