Single Record

Participant Info

Species
Arnica fulgens
Family
Asteraceae
CommonName
foothill arnica
Presence
Yes
Status
native
EarliestDate
1981
LatestDate
1998
Ecosystem
montane
Geobotanical
SSanjuans, Culebras
Counties
Conejos, Costilla, Mineral, Rio Grande
Passes
Grayback
WildlifePreserves
Other Localities
Comments
NEED IN SITU PHOTOS. So far there are five Watershed locations for foothill arnica, in the San Juans and the Culebras: near Spruce Hole (Conejos Co, 1987); S of Lookout Mountain (Conejos Co, 1983) ; 1.3 miles E of Grayback Mountain (Rio Grande Co, 1983); Lime Creek road (Mineral Co, 1981); and 2 miles S of San Luis (Costilla Co, 1998). The tufts of hair in the basal leaf nodes make this a species hard to misidentify. The reason for the paucity of collections may lie in the USA distribution. Except for a few records from the Chuska Mountains in northwest New Mexico, the Watershed occurrences lie at the farthest south, the main distribution covering the northern half of the West.