Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Erigeron vetensis
- Family
- Asteraceae
- CommonName
- early blue-top fleabane
- Presence
- YES
- Status
- native
- EarliestDate
- 1914
- LatestDate
- 2021
- Ecosystem
- foothill, montane, ruderal, urban
- Geobotanical
- SSawatch, Garitas, SSanjuans, NCristos
- Counties
- Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Hinsdale, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache
- Passes
- Cochetopa, Grayback, Hayden, La Veta, South, Wolf Creek
- WildlifePreserves
- Great Sand Dunes, Rio Grande
- Other Localities
- Del Norte
- Comments
- In the Watershed, Erigeron vetensis is one of the most common fleabanes of the foothills and open montane slopes. It is also one of the earliest fleabanes to appear in the spring. Determination can be difficult since the glandular aspect of the stem, phyllaries, leaves, and disk floret corolla—supposedly a key character—can be minute. A better trait to distinguish E. vetensis from E. concinnus and E. pumilus is the throat of the disk corolla, which in E. vetensis is tubular. The USA distribution is centered in the central ranges of Colorado, including the piedmont of the Front Range, with a presence in southeastern Wyoming and the Rio Grande drainage of New Mexico down to Socorro Co, no farther
- Annotation