Participant Info

Species

Erigeron divergens [Erigeron accedens] [Erigeron incomptus] [Erigeron wootonii]

Family

Asteraceae

CommonName

spreading fleabane

Presence

YES

Status

native

EarliestDate

1898

LatestDate

2021

Ecosystem

basin, shrubland, foothill, montane, ruderal, urban

Geobotanical

Garitas, SSanjuans, Culebras, NCristos, UBasin, LBasin

Counties

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

Passes

Wolf Creek

WildlifePreserves

Baca, Great Sand Dunes, Hot Creek, Russell Lakes

Other Localities

Del Norte

PhotoRecords

YES Rich Haswell: Rio Grande Co, gravel pit 1.5 air miles NE of Del Norte 6/20/2021; Del Norte, crack in sidewalk of downtown street 24 May 2017

Comments

Spreading fleabane is common throughout the Watershed, found from the Basin up into the montane. Its natural habitat seems to be meadows and dry foothill slopes, but this fleabane also takes advantage of road sides and sometimes street sides. it is widely present in all states west of the Great Plains, including the far western Great Plains. It follows the Rio Grande drainage through New Mexico down into the Big Bend country of Texas.

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