Participant Info

Species

Bidens tenuisecta [Bidens cognata]

Family

Asteraceae

CommonName

slimlobe beggarticks

Presence

YES

Status

native

EarliestDate

1917

LatestDate

2025

Ecosystem

basin, foothill, ruderal, urban

Geobotanical

Garitas, SSanjuans, UBasin, LBasin

Counties

Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Rio Grande, Saguache

Passes

WildlifePreserves

Baca

Other Localities

Alamosa (town), Del Norte

PhotoRecords

YES Rich Haswell: Rio Grande Co, meadow by Rio Grande slough near Del Norte 11 Aug 2018; Rio Grande Co, Del Norte streert side, 6 Sept 2023

Comments

Slimlobe beggarticks has been recorded fairly frequently around the Watershed in a variety of habitats: Basin ditches, foothill river bottom-lands, quasi-mesic shrubland, urban street side. The plant is mainly a Southwest plant of Arizona and New Mexico, but does range up through the central mountains of Colorado and down the Rio Grande drainage through New Mexico to west Texas. Note that as the inflorescence matures, the barbed awns become more and more prominent.

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