Participant Info

Species

Podistera eastwoodiae

Family

Apiaceae

CommonName

Eastwood’s podistera

Presence

Yes

Status

native

EarliestDate

1911

LatestDate

2020

Ecosystem

subalpine, tundra

Geobotanical

Garitas, SSanjuans, Culebras

Counties

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

Passes

Elwood, Grayback, Stony, Wolf Creek

WildlifePreserves

Big Meadows Reservoir

Other Localities

PhotoRecords

YES Rich Haswell: Rio Grande Co, Grayback Mt, 23 June 2020

Comments

The Watershed distribution of Eastwood's podistera is almost entirely in the San Juan Mountains and the southernmost Culebras. So far this lowly carrot has not been recorded in the north Cristos and the south Sawatch Range. The species would be endemic to Colorado were it not for a few records from eastern Utah and northern New Mexico.

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