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 Sherman Lake E of Buena Vista 13 Aug 2016

Comments

There are only two records of Symphyotrichum porteri from the Watershed. The Sherman Lake phoatorecord (2015) would be a second, and would add Rio Grande to the counties indicated in Ackerfield (2022) and BONAP (2022). (Note that the 1971 voucher labeled from “Buckthorn Creek Ca. 8 mi NW Massonville,” is from Buckhorn Creek in Latimer Co.) 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 Watershed locations would be the only ones recorded from the entire Rio Grande drainage.

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