Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Pteridium pubescens [Pteridium aquilinum subsp. pubescens]
- Family
- Dennstaedtiaceae
- CommonName
- hairy bracken fern
- Presence
- yes
- Status
- native
- EarliestDate
- 1988
- LatestDate
- 1988
- Ecosystem
- montane
- Geobotanical
- SSanjuans
- Counties
- Conejos
- Passes
- WildlifePreserves
- Other Localities
- PhotoRecords
- Comments
- NEED IN SITU PHOTOS. Hairy bracken fern has been vouchered only once from the Watershed: two miles SSE of Ruybalid Lake, "along a moist ravine on southwest exposure with Pseudotsuga, Salix and Populus tremuloides" at 9,842' elevation. Pteridium pubescens is recorded from both west and east of the Watershed in Colorado, as well as in all the New Mexico counties bordering the Watershed. In New Mexico it follows the Rio Grande drainage solidly down to the Mexican border and on into the Big Bend country of Texas. In the USA, it is one of the most wide-spread and common ferns, found in every state except for those of the Great Plains.
- Annotation