Participant Info

Species

Artemisia carruthii [Artemisia kansana] [Artemisia wrightii]

Family

Asteraceae

CommonName

Carruth’s sagebrush

Presence

Yes

Status

native

EarliestDate

1911

LatestDate

2017

Ecosystem

foothill, montane

Geobotanical

SSawatch, Garitas, SSanjuans

Counties

Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Hinsdale, Rio Grande, Saguache, Archuleta

Passes

Cochetopa, Cumbres

WildlifePreserves

Great Sand Dunes

Other Localities

La Botica

PhotoRecords

YES Rich Haswell Rio Grande Co, Middle San Francisco Creek, by trailhead, 10 miles S of Del Norte 15 Aug 2016

Comments

Of Carruth's wormwood there are many collections from the Watershed. Only three, howeer, come from the east side: the Great Sand Dunes' visitor center (Alamosa Co), Mountain Home Reservoir (Costilla Co), and base of Baldy Peak near Ft. Garland (Costilla Co). In the USA, the plant is distributed throughout the Southwest on E into the Plains of Colorado, Kansas and the Texas panhandle. It follows the Rio Grande drainage through New Mexico on a little past the Big Bend country of Texas.

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