Description:
Selected from seed originally collected in 1993, 1.5 miles north of San Juan Power Plant (R30W T30N S6NW 1/4, elevation = 1574 meters), south of the town of Fruitland, New Mexico. Plants growing in a damp arroyo bottom on clay loam soil of the Blancot soil series. One collection was seeded in 1994 at Los Lunas PMC and evaluated for survival under agronomic conditions. After 3 years of evaluation, plants were selected for hardiness and seed was harvested from plants. Seed was then sown into a second field and plants were evaluated for hardiness for 5 years. In 2003, seed was collected from hardiest plants to establish the Westwater Germplasm field of alkali muhly