Participant Info

Species

Senecio crassulus [Senecio lapathifolius]

Family

Asteraceae

CommonName

mountain-meadow ragwort

Presence

YES

Status

native

EarliestDate

1911

LatestDate

2019

Ecosystem

subalpine, tundra

Geobotanical

SSawatch, Garitas, SSanjuans, NCristos

Counties

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

Passes

Wolf Creek

WildlifePreserves

Big Meadows Reservoir

Other Localities

PhotoRecords

YES Rich Haswell: Rio Grande Co, near Elwood Pass 2 Aug 2019

Comments

In the Watershed, Senecio crassulus is a high-elevation plant much more collected in the mountain regions on the west of the Valley than on the east. There is only one record from the Cristos (Willow Lake, 1999, Hogan coll). In the USA, the species is common throughout the Central and Southrn Rockies and the Intermoutain regions. It follows the Rio Grande drainage in New Mexico only down to Santa Fe Co.

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