Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Heliomeris multiflora [Viguiera multiflora]
- Family
- Asteraceae
- CommonName
- showy goldeneye
- Presence
- YES
- Status
- native
- EarliestDate
- 1916
- LatestDate
- 2020
- Ecosystem
- shrubland, foothill, montane, subalpine, ruderal, urban
- Geobotanical
- SSawatch, Garitas, SSanjuans, NCristos
- Counties
- Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Hinsdale, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache, Archuleta
- Passes
- Cumbres, La Veta, Mosca
- WildlifePreserves
- Great Sand Dunes
- Other Localities
- La Botica, Del Norte
- PhotoRecords
- YES Rich Haswell: Saguache Co, Old Woman Creek 8.6 air miles NW of Del Norte 28 Aug 2014
- Comments
- In the Watershed, showy goldeneye is common in pinyon-juniper foothills and montane meadows during late summer and early autumn. It can populate a rotated and ungrazed field in wide swatches. In the USA, it is wide spread in the Southwest and the Central and Southern Rockies, following the Rio Grande drainage through New Mexico into west Texas. The Watershed species is divided between Heliomeris multiflora var. multiflora and var. nevadensis. Note that immature plants with undeveloped petals can be mistaken for Bidens spp. The cypselae of such immature plants may lack barbs and, as with Bidens species, also lack pappi. A look at the phyllaries will show, however, that the plants are Heliomeris, with both inner and out series quite similar.
- Annotation