Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Iva axillaris
- Family
- Asteraceae
- CommonName
- povertyweed, death weed, sumpweed
- Presence
- YES
- Status
- native
- EarliestDate
- 1929
- LatestDate
- 2019
- Ecosystem
- basin, shrubland, ruderal
- Geobotanical
- UBasin, LBasin
- Counties
- Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Rio Grande, Saguache
- Passes
- WildlifePreserves
- Alamosa, Baca, Russell Lakes
- Other Localities
- Comments
- In the Watershed, poverty weed is a Basin plant that usually grows on dry alkaline or saline playas. The records that come nearest to foothill terrain are one from near Ft. Garland (2003) and one from Shaw Springs a little north of Del Norte (2003). The Watershed is close to the eastern boundary of the range of this Western species. There are scattered records down the Rio Grande drainage of New Mexico at least to Socorro Co, but the species does not continue into Texas drainage. Note that the name "povertyweed" may refer to the disposition of the species to occupy disturbed or neglected ground—a name also applied to Blitum nuttallianum
- Annotation