Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Agoseris glauca [Traximon glaucum] [Agoseris glauca var. dasycephala]
- Family
- Asteraceae
- CommonName
- pale agoseris
- Presence
- Yes
- Status
- native
- EarliestDate
- 1898
- LatestDate
- 2022
- Ecosystem
- shrubland, foothill, montane, subalpine
- Geobotanical
- SSawatch, Garitas, SSanjuans, Culebras, NCristos, UBasin
- Counties
- Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Hinsdale, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache, San Juan
- Passes
- Cochetopa, Cumbres, Hayden, La Veta, Medano, Mosca, Spring Creek, Stony
- WildlifePreserves
- Baca, Brown Lakes, Great Sand Dunes
- Other Localities
- PhotoRecords
- YES Rich Haswell: Hinsdale Co, North Clear Creek Falls, 8 Aug 2015; Saguache Co, Luders Creek cpgd 21 Aug 2022
- Comments
- Agoseris glauca, beloved of bees and other insects, is the most common agoseris in all regions of the Watershed. It is, however, collected more often on the west side of Valley. The one Basin collection was in 1898 from the banks of the Conejos River north of Antonito. The flower is wide spread in all states W of the Great Plains and in the northern Great Plains. It follows the Rio Grande drainage through New Mexico nearly to the Texas border. Note that distinguishing A. glauca from A. parviflora can be problematical at times. The two species overlap in elevation (although A. glauca tends to grow higher), in habitat (although A. glauca prefers more mesic conditions), in size (although A. glauca tends to be taller), and in leaf shape (although A. glauca tends toward entire, narrower leaves). The surest distinction is the length of the achene beak in relation to the rest of the achene (with A. glauca having the longer beak).
- Annotation