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Participant Info

Species
Packera cana [Senecio hallii var. discoidea] [Senecio canus]
Family
Asteraceae
CommonName
woolly groundsel
Presence
YES
Status
native
EarliestDate
1971
LatestDate
2017
Ecosystem
foothill, montane
Geobotanical
SSawatch, Garitas, SSanjuans, NCristos
Counties
Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache
Passes
WildlifePreserves
Great Sand Dunes
Other Localities
La Botica
Comments
The Watershed locations for Packera cana are all in the west-side mountains, except for three in the north Cristos: The Great Sand DunesNP, Zapata Falls, and Holbrook Canyon on the slopes of Mt. Blanca. One neighboring location, often collected, is the ash beds just W of Cochetopa pass, in the San Juan drainage. The USA distribution covers all states west of the Great Plains and eastern parts of the northern Great Plains. Woolly groundsel follows the Rio Grand drainage only as far as Sandoval Co, New Mexico. Note that the species sometimes can be hard to distinguish from P. thurberi [P. neomexicana].