Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Tonestus pygmaeus [Haplopappus pygmaeus] [Stenotus pygmaeus]
- Family
- Asteraceae
- CommonName
- pygmy goldenweed, pygmy serpentweed
- Presence
- YES
- Status
- native
- EarliestDate
- 1945
- LatestDate
- 2019
- Ecosystem
- subalpine, tundra
- Geobotanical
- SSawatch, Garitas, SSanjuans, Culebras, NCristos
- Counties
- Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Hinsdale, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache, Archuleta, San Juan
- Passes
- Elwood, Grayback, Stony
- WildlifePreserves
- Other Localities
- Comments
- Pygmy goldenweed has been collected from all mountain regions of the Watershed. Tonestus pygmaeus prefers gentle slopes of the alpine, rocky with sparse grass. It also can be found among rocks of talus slopes and fellfields. The USA distribution is confined to the central mountains of Colorado, northern New Mexico, and, rarely, southern Wyoming. In New Mexico it is present in the Rio Grande drainage only to Santa Fe Co, no farther down stream. Incidentally, the genus name Tonestus was generated by Asa Gray simply as an anagram of Stenotus (an asterid genus that includes S. acaulis and S. armenioides of Colorado); he similarly created the genus name Nestotus (asterid of California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, and western Idaho). Someone who named hundreds of new species may be excused such frollics.
- Annotation