Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Artemisia frigida
- Family
- Asteraceae
- CommonName
- fringed sagewort, estafiata, arctic sage, pasture sage
- Presence
- yes
- Status
- native
- EarliestDate
- 1912
- LatestDate
- 2021
- Ecosystem
- basin, shrubland, foothill, montane, subalpine, tundra, urban
- Geobotanical
- SSawatch, Garitas, SSanjuans, Culebras, NCristos, UBasin, LBasin
- Counties
- Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Hinsdale, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache, Archuleta
- Passes
- Cochetopa, La Manga
- WildlifePreserves
- Baca, Great Sand Dunes
- Other Localities
- Alamosa (town), La Botica, Del Norte
- Comments
- Fringed sagewort is perhaps the most common artemisia of the Watershed, occupying all ecosystems and geobotanical regions. Artemisia frigida has adapted to urban habitats, and persists in lawns, street verges, and alleyways. It is the shapeshifter of artemisias, taking a tricky range of forms, from young leaves less than an inch high, to single stems, to hefty bushes a foot and one half tall. Its ternate leaf segments can be bunched together or spread widely apart. Its USA range is the Intermountain West, the Rocky Mountains from north to south, and the northern Great Plains. It follows the Rio Grande drainage through New Mexico to the Mexican border, but no farther. Note that in his three-year survey of flora of the South San Juan Mountain Wilderness area, Sharples found it only rarely (Sharples, 2017).
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