Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Rudbeckia hirta [Rudbeckia flava]
- Family
- Asteraceae
- CommonName
- brown-eyed Susan
- Presence
- YES
- Status
- native
- EarliestDate
- 1900
- LatestDate
- 2021
- Ecosystem
- basin, foothill, montane, ruderal
- Geobotanical
- SSanjuans, NCristos, UBasin, LBasin
- Counties
- Conejos, Costilla, Rio Grande, Saguache
- Passes
- La Veta, Medano
- WildlifePreserves
- Baca
- Other Localities
- Comments
- In the Watershed, brown-eyed susan shows a patchy distribution, with records clustered around the west base of La Veta Pass, the Baca NWR, along the Conejos River near Antonito, and Spectacle Lake farther west on the Conejos River. Sharples (2017) found it "uncommon in the Conejos Valley." The South Fork plant in the 2016 photorecord hasn't been seen there since. The latest record is from Goodall Lane in Fort Garland (2021, iNaturalist observation #91170574). Note that the species is commonly sold in garden shops. Rudbeckia hirta is a pervasive eastern USA plant, adventitive and scattered in states west of the Great Plains. The presence of R. hirta in the full Rio Grande drainage is disjunct. From the Colorado Watershed it has been recorded in New Mexico down to Sandoval Co, with no more records down stream until Dimmit Co, Texas (below Big Bend), from where the species follows the drainage to the Gulf of Mexico.
- Annotation