Foothills. Mancos Shale. Summer, fall.
Lone Mesa State Park, August 23, 2008.

Above is the collected specimen of the first Gutierrezia elegans found. I am holding the new species
above the point I found it growing in its Mancos Shale habitat.
In the photograph below the same specimen is dried, framed, and hanging in my dining room.  Several other specimens
were collected and are now in herbariums.

Click for photographs of the terrain that Gutierrezia elegans grows in.