Participant Info

Species

Symphyotrichum porteri [Aster porteri]

Family

Asteraceae

CommonName

Porter’s aster

Presence

YES

Status

native

EarliestDate

1971

LatestDate

2016

Ecosystem

basin, ruderal

Geobotanical

UBasin, LBasin

Counties

Conejos, Rio Grande

Passes

WildlifePreserves

Other Localities

PhotoRecords

YES Rich Haswell: Rio Grande Co., edge of Home Lake east of Buena Vista 13 Aug 2016

Comments

There is only one voucher of Symphyotrichum porteri from the Watershed and it is mislabeled. This is the 1971 record from “Buckthorn Creek Ca. 8 mi NW Massonville” in "Conejos Co." The observation actually is from Buckhorn Creek in Latimer Co. So the Home Lake phoatorecord (2015) would be the unique occurrence of the species in the Watershed, and would add Rio Grande to the counties indicated in Ackerfield (2022) and BONAP (2022). Symphyotrichum porteri is chiefly an east-slope Rockies flower of Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico. The occurrences in New Mexico lie in the Canadian River drainage, which flows into the Arkansas River, not the Rio Grande. So the single Watershed location would be the only on record from the entire Rio Grande drainage.

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