Participant Info

Species

Rorippa curvipes [Rorippa truncata] [Rorippa sinuata var. truncata]

Family

Brassicaceae

CommonName

bluntleaf yellowcress

Presence

YES

Status

native

EarliestDate

1898

LatestDate

2018

Ecosystem

foothill, montane, ruderal, urban

Geobotanical

SSanjuans, UBasin

Counties

Alamosa, Conejos, Hinsdale, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache, Archuleta, San Juan

Passes

Wolf Creek

WildlifePreserves

Other Localities

Del Norte

PhotoRecords

YES Rich Haswell: Rio Grande Co, bank of Beaver Creek, Upper Beaver Creek cpgd 26 July 2018

Comments

Bluntleaf yellowcress has been frequently collected in the Watershed, but only in the south San Juans. Rorippa curvipes prefers wet margins of lakes and streams of the montane. In the South San Juan Wilderneass Area, though, Sharples (2017) found it "common in higher, muddy ground" at elevations 11,400' and 10,350'. The USA range is all states west of the Great Plains. It is recorded from the Rio Grande drainage of New Mexico and of west Texas, with an isolated location far on down stream in Webb Co.

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