Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Symphyotrichum falcatum [Aster falcatus]
- Family
- Asteraceae
- CommonName
- white prairie aster
- Presence
- YES
- Status
- native
- EarliestDate
- 1939
- LatestDate
- 2019
- Ecosystem
- basin, shrubland, foothill
- Geobotanical
- Garitas, SSanjuans, NCristos, UBasin
- Counties
- Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Saguache
- Passes
- WildlifePreserves
- San Luis Lakes
- Other Localities
- Comments
- For white prairie aster in the Watershed, there are about 10 locations, on both sides of the Watershed. One concentration is around Ft. Garland in Costilla Co. The distribution overlaps with S. ericoides, from which S. falcatum is tricky to distinguish. The USA population is centered around the Rocky Mountains and the Plains, from the Canadian border down to the Mexican, but also spreads into the desert Southwest. The flower follows the Rio Grande drainage to the Big Bend country of Texas
- Annotation