Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Packera werneriifolia [Packera saxosa] [Senecio aureus] [Senecio pentadontus] [Senecio saxosus]
- Family
- Asteraceae
- CommonName
- alpine groundsel
- Presence
- YES
- Status
- native
- EarliestDate
- 1911
- LatestDate
- 2017
- Ecosystem
- montane, subalpine, tundra
- Geobotanical
- Garitas, SSanjuans, Culebras, NCristos
- Counties
- Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Hinsdale, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache, San Juan
- Passes
- Elwood, Grayback, Stony, Wolf Creek, Slumgullion
- WildlifePreserves
- Other Localities
- PhotoRecords
- YES Rich Haswell: Mineral Co, Hunters Lake, SWW of South Fork, 2 July 2014; Rio Grande Co Burro trail 4 June 2014
- Comments
- Although typically a subalpine or alpine plant in the Watershed, alpine groundsel has also been found in the montane; e.g., Wagon Wheel Gap in Mineral Co. At higher elevations, it has been collected from all mountain regions of the Watershed, east and west. In similar habitats, it is present in all Western states except for Washington and Oregon. It follows the Rio Grande drainage through New Mexico to Sierra Co but not farther down stream. Note that all authorities agree that the species is extremely variable, especially as to leaf shape. Ackerfield (2022) restores Friedrich Wilhelm Klatt's "Packera saxona" and applies it to the alpine variety of Packera werneriifolia, with ovate crenate-margined leaves, retaining "Packera werneriifolia" for the lower elevation variety, with more elliptic entire-margined leaves (see photorecord from Rio Grande Co 4 June 2014). Both species, according to her distribution maps, occur in the Watershed.
- Annotation