Participant Info

Species

Symphyotrichum frondosum [Aster frondosus] [Aster woodhousei] [Brachyactis frondosum] [Bractyactis woodhousei] [Tripolium frondosum]

Family

Asteraceae

CommonName

short-rayed alkali aster

Presence

YES

Status

native

EarliestDate

1930

LatestDate

2019

Ecosystem

basin, shrubland

Geobotanical

SSanjuans, UBasin, LBasin

Counties

Alamosa, Conejos, Saguache

Passes

WildlifePreserves

Baca, Blanca Wetlands, Russell Lakes

Other Localities

PhotoRecords

YES Rich Haswell: Saguache Co, Russell Lakes SWA 18 Sept 2019

Comments

For Symphyotrichum frondosum there are only six locations in the Watershed, all alkali flats by water in the Basin. The determination of a specimen collected 6 miles W of Mogote in Conejos Co (1993, Dixon) might use confirmation. The species is distributed, spottily, around all USA states west of the Great Plains, and the Watershed occurrences (along with a few in New Mexico) fall in the extreme SE corner.

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