Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Antennaria rosea [Antennaria formosa] [Antennaria imbricata] [Antennaria arida]
- Family
- Asteraceae
- CommonName
- red pussytoes
- Presence
- Yes
- Status
- native
- EarliestDate
- 1924
- LatestDate
- 2014
- Ecosystem
- montane, subalpine
- Geobotanical
- Garitas, SSanjuans, Culebras, NCristos
- Counties
- Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Hinsdale, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache
- Passes
- Carnero, Cochetopa, Elwood, Medano, Music, North, Poncha, South, Spring Creek, Wolf Creek
- WildlifePreserves
- Great Sand Dunes
- Other Localities
- Comments
- Red pussytoes has been frequently collected on both sides of the the Watershed, in montane and subalpine vegetative zones. It is wide spread throughout the USA west of the Plains, and follows the Rio Grande drainage only through the northern third of New Mexico. Note that Allred et al. (2020) say that its three varieties in New Mexico—var. rosea, var. confinis, var. arida—all intergrade. Also note that A. rosea hybridizes with A. microphylla, and that in the past A. rosea was sometimes treated as a variety of A. microphylla. But A. microphylla is dioecious, some plants with pistillate heads, some with staminate heads. A. rosea has only pistillate flower heads. Also the lower stems of A. rosea are not stipulate-glandular, those of A. microphylla are. To distinguish the two species, these morphological features may serve better than color of involucral bracts.
- Annotation