Participant Info

Species

Erigeron elatior [Erigeron grandiflorus var. elatior]

Family

Asteraceae

CommonName

tall fleabane

Presence

YES

Status

native

EarliestDate

1976

LatestDate

2020

Ecosystem

montane, subalpine

Geobotanical

Garitas, SSanjuans, NCristos

Counties

Conejos, Hinsdale, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache, Archuleta, San Juan

Passes

Stony, Wolf Creek

WildlifePreserves

Great Sand Dunes

Other Localities

PhotoRecords

YES Rich Haswell: Saguache Co, Cochetopa Pass, 10 July 2015; Rio Grande Co, Grayback Mountain 23 June 2020

Comments

Tall fleabane has been collected fairly frequently from montane and subalpine forest edges of the La Garitas and the south San Juans, but there are no collections from the south Sawatch Range. Note that the Colorado distribution continues on north in the Sawatch mountains of the Arkansas River drainage. The central distribution of Erigeron elatior is Colorado and contingent edges of Wyoming, Utah, and New Mexico, where it has been found in Rio Arriba, Taos, and Mora counties but not farther south in the Rio Grande drainage.

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