Participant Info

Species

Artemisia mexicana [Artemisia ludoviciana subsp. mexicana]

Family

Asteraceae

CommonName

Mexican sage

Presence

MAYBE

Status

native

EarliestDate

1924

LatestDate

1924

Ecosystem

montane

Geobotanical

SSanjuans

Counties

Archuleta

Passes

WildlifePreserves

Other Localities

PhotoRecords

Comments

NEED IN SITU PHOTOS. There is only one Watershed record for Artemisia mexicana, dated 1924 from "Costilla Co," “Chama basin,” with elevation given as 10,000'. The best interpretation of this is that the collector (Paul Lister) meant Archuleta Co, where the Chama drainage does reach 10,000'. Most authorities accept this plant as a subspecies of Artemisia ludoviciana. BONAP treats it as a separate species and shows its USA distribution as the Southwest, and central and southern Great Plains. BONAP also shows it it ranging down the Rio Grande drainage of New Mexico to the Mexican border.

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