Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Gaillardia aristata
- Family
- Asteraceae
- CommonName
- blanketflower
- Presence
- YES
- Status
- native
- EarliestDate
- 1957
- LatestDate
- 2021
- Ecosystem
- foothill, montane, ruderal, urban
- Geobotanical
- Garitas, SSanjuans, NCristos
- Counties
- Conejos, Costilla, Rio Grande, Saguache
- Passes
- Medano
- WildlifePreserves
- Other Localities
- Del Norte
- Comments
- For this native blanketflower, there are five records scattered around the Watershed in the Basin and foothills. Specimens within city limits (e.g., the ghost town of Russell, west of La Veta pass, 1957; South Fork, 2021; Creede, 2023, iNaturalist observation #173451799) may be escapes of cultivated varieties, but other locations suggest natives (e.g., Medano Creek in the north Cristos, 1984; Shaw springs north of Del Norte, 2003; above La Jara Creek, west of Capulin, 2021, iNaturalist observation #86940125). Ackerfield (2015) and BONAP (2022) show Alamosa Co, with no vouchers in SEINet. The USA distribution is the Rocky Mountains and states W of the Mississippi bordering Canada. There are a few scattered records from New Mexico, but the species does not continue in the Rio Grande drainage farther south.
- Annotation