Participant Info

Species

Helianthella quinquenervis [Helianthella majuscula] [Helianthus quinquenervis]]

Family

Asteraceae

CommonName

little sunflower

Presence

YES

Status

native

EarliestDate

1896

LatestDate

2013

Ecosystem

foothill, montane

Geobotanical

SSanjuans, NCristos, UBasin

Counties

Conejos, Costilla, Hinsdale, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache, Archuleta

Passes

Cumbres, La Veta, Stunner, Wolf Creek, Slumgullion

WildlifePreserves

Other Localities

PhotoRecords

YES Rich Haswell: Mineral Co, meadow above Shaw Lake 22 June 2016

Comments

In the Watershed there are no records of five-nerved little sunflower from the south Sawatch Range, the La Garitas, or the Culebras. Elsewhere it is fairly common, from foothills to upper montane. The one Basin record is from Villa Grove in 1896. In the USA, the main distribution is the Great Basin of Oregon, Nevada, and Idaho, and the Rocky Mountains nearly from border to border. It is found in the Rio Grande drainage through New Mexico nearly to the Texas border, but does not follow that drainage into Texas.

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