Participant Info

Species

Achillea millefolium [Achillea alpicola] [Achillea lanulosa] [Achillea laxiflora] etc.

Family

Asteraceae

CommonName

yarrow

Presence

Yes

Status

native

EarliestDate

1901

LatestDate

2020

Ecosystem

basin, shrubland, foothill, montane, subalpine, tundra, ruderal, urban

Geobotanical

SSawatch, Garitas, SSanjuans, Culebras, NCristos, UBasin

Counties

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

Passes

Carnero, Cochetopa, Elwood, La Manga, Poncha, South, Spring Creek, Stony

WildlifePreserves

Baca, Brown Lakes, Great Sand Dunes, Rio Grande

Other Localities

Alamosa (town), La Botica, Del Norte

PhotoRecords

YES Rich Haswell: Rio Grande Co, 4 miles W of Summitville 8/6/2018

Comments

Yarrow is one of the Watershed’s most common and versatile plants, found from urban lots in the Basin up to tundra meadows. Its variability in traits and "rampant hybridization" (Allred et al. 2020) has encouraged the proposal of many synonyms and varieties. It is present in the large majority of USA counties, but follows the Rio Grande drainage through New Mexico only to far west Texas.

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