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Participant Info

Species
Pectis angustifolia
Family
Asteraceae
CommonName
lemonscent, cinchweed
Presence
Yes
Status
native
EarliestDate
1989
LatestDate
2022
Ecosystem
foothill, ruderal
Geobotanical
Garitas, LBasin
Counties
Conejos, Costilla, Saguache
Passes
WildlifePreserves
Other Localities
Alamosa (town)
Comments
In the Watershed there are only four locations for Pectis angustifolia: vacant lot in the town of Alamosa (Alamosa Co, 1989); “San Luis Hills,” “locally abundant” (Conejos Co, 1999); near Old Woman Creek Road (Saguache Co, 2014); and one kilometer north of Mountain Home Reservoir (Costilla Co, iNaturalist observation, 6 Aug 2022, Leslie Haynes coll). The third is a photorecord that would add Saguache Co to counties indicated in Ackerfield (2022) and BONAP (2022). The fourth would add Costilla Co. Yet the species is present in nearly all the counties of Arizona and New Mexico. It follows the Rio Grande drainage from Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, to the Gulf of Mexico. Pectis angustifolia is primarily distributed in Arizona, New Mexico, eastern Colorado, and southwestern Texas. Note that there are other species of Pectis in the Rio Grande drainage of southern New Mexico and Texas: P. cylindrica, P. filipes, P. papposa, and P. prostrata. For more comments, click "yes" in the Annotation field below.