Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Bidens frondosa [Brachyacaulis frondosus]
- Family
- Asteraceae
- CommonName
- devil’s beggarticks
- Presence
- Yes
- Status
- native, adventive
- EarliestDate
- 1985
- LatestDate
- 2020
- Ecosystem
- basin, foothill
- Geobotanical
- UBasin
- Counties
- Alamosa, Rio Grande
- Passes
- WildlifePreserves
- Blanca Wetlands, Dry Creek, Great Sand Dunes
- Other Localities
- Comments
- In the Watershed so far there are only four locations for devil's beggarticks: the dike east of Adams State University in Alamosa, 1992; the Alamosa golf course, in a slough by the road, 1985; Dry Creek SWA (near Rock Creek in Rio Grande Co), 1997; and the Blanca Wetlands by a pond, 2017, 2020. (But see the possible confusion with Bidens laevis.) This is a native USA-wide beggarticks, adventive to Colorado. Its presence in New Mexico is mainly in the Rio Grande valley down to the Mexican border (but no farther down the drainage). The species is found in all USA states, and has had many medical uses.
- Annotation