Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Cirsium culebraensis
- Family
- Asteraceae
- CommonName
- none yet
- Presence
- yes
- Status
- native
- EarliestDate
- 1987
- LatestDate
- 2020
- Ecosystem
- tundra
- Geobotanical
- Culebras
- Counties
- Costilla
- Passes
- WildlifePreserves
- Other Localities
- PhotoRecords
- Comments
- NEED IN SITU PHOTOS. This is a new species of Cirsium, named for science by Jennifer Ackerfield (Ackerfield 2022), with locations in the Culebras a little north and south of the New Mexico border. It is distinguished from C. hesperium by having style branches that are pale pink rather than purple. One herbarium voucher, renamed from "Cirsium scopulorum," is located at the head of Whiskey Creek (1987), another in the Alamasito Creek drainage (2014). So far the USA distribution is just Colorado and New Mexico.
- Annotation