Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Lygodesmia juncea [Prenanthes juncea]
- Family
- Asteraceae
- CommonName
- rush skeletonweed
- Presence
- Yes
- Status
- native
- EarliestDate
- 1931
- LatestDate
- 2021
- Ecosystem
- basin, foothill, montane, sanddunes
- Geobotanical
- Garitas, SSanjuans, NCristos, UBasin
- Counties
- Alamosa, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache
- Passes
- WildlifePreserves
- Baca, Great Sand Dunes, San Luis Lakes
- Other Localities
- La Botica
- PhotoRecords
- YES Rich Haswell: Alamosa Co, By Hwy 150, 0.9 miles SW of entrance to the Great Sand Dunes NP, 20 July 2021
- Comments
- In the Watershed there are not many locations for this skeletonweed: Saguache Co (Baca National Wildlife Refuge); Alamosa Co (a cluster of records from around the Great Sand Dunes NWP); Rio Grande Co (one record by a road near South Fork); Mineral Co, one location on Pool Table road); Conejos Co, La Botica in La Jara canyon. In Colorado Lygodesmia juncea is primarily a species of the Great Plains and Rockies, with a scatting of records west of there. It follows the Rio Grande through New Mexico, with southern locations more scattered than northern locations. It is not found in the Rio Grande drainage of Texas.
- Annotation