Participant Info

Species

Artemisia bigelovii [Artemisia petrophila] [Seriphidium bigelovii]

Family

Asteraceae

CommonName

Bigelow's sagebrush, flat sagebrush

Presence

Yes

Status

native

EarliestDate

1935

LatestDate

1999

Ecosystem

basin

Geobotanical

UBasin, LBasin

Counties

Alamosa, Conejos, Saguache

Passes

WildlifePreserves

Other Localities

PhotoRecords

Comments

NEED IN SITU PHOTOS. In the Watershed there are only three locations for Bigelow's sagebrush: one in the Upper Basin near Alder in Saguache Co; two from the Lower Basin in Conejos Co. Ackerfield shows Alamosa Co, with no vouchers in SEINet. This is a plant of dry alkaline flats and rocky slopes, and its USA distribution is the desert Southwest. It ranges down the Rio Grande drainage to the Mexican border and into Southwest Texas. Note that its size overlaps with Artemisia tridentata and it takes close field observation of stems and florets to distinguish the two.

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