Participant Info

Species

Senecio bigelovii [Ligularia bigelovii] [Senecio accedens] [Senecio scopulinus]

Family

Asteraceae

CommonName

nodding groundsel

Presence

YES

Status

native

EarliestDate

1838

LatestDate

2020

Ecosystem

basin, shrubland, montane, subalpine

Geobotanical

SSawatch, Garitas, SSanjuans, Culebras, NCristos, UBasin

Counties

Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Hinsdale, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache, Archuleta, San Juan

Passes

Cumbres, Elwood, Hayden, La Manga, Medano, Music, Wolf Creek

WildlifePreserves

Baca, Big Meadows Reservoir

Other Localities

PhotoRecords

YES Rich Haswell: Rio Grande Co, 1 mile S of Grayback Pass 8/12/2020

Comments

In the Watershed, Bigelow's ragwort is a common meadow plant of the montane and subalpine, in all Watershed mountain ranges. It prefers more mesic habitats than do some ragworts, often found around rills, damp edges of aspens groves, and wet meadows. The one Basin collection comes from the Baca NWR (2006). The USA range of Senecio bigelovii is mainly Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona. It follows the Rio Grande drainage through Nexico to the Mexican border counties but not into Texas. Note that variation in the leaves have generated a number of synonyms.

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