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Helianthella
parryi Montane. Openings, woodlands.
Summer. Helianthella parryi is found in most mountainous counties of New Mexico and Colorado, is rare in two counties in Arizona, and, with the plant shown here, is now known from one county (San Juan) in Utah. (On July 31, 2010 Betty, John Bregar, and I found the plant on the Mt. Linnaeus Trail. What a nice name for a trail and mountain.) Just a bit over a year later, Betty and I and Bill Gray found H. parryi about 70 miles north of Mt. Linnaeus in the La Sal mountains of Utah while working on a plant survey with Mindy Wheeler for the Grand Canyon Trust. H. parryi has a much more limited range than its quite similar cousin, Helianthella quinquenervis, which is found throughout the West with the exception of Washington and Oregon. H. parryi stands 20-50 cm tall (H. quinquenervis is 50-150 cm), its flower head is 1.5-2 cm wide exclusive of the ray flowers (H. quinquenervis is 4-5 cm), its ray flowers number 8-14 (H. quinquenervis has 13-21 rays, usually 17-21), and its leaves are less than 10 cm long (H. quinquenervis leaves are up to 50 cm long). Asa Gray named this plant in 1864, probably from a specimen collected a few years earlier by Charles Parry, eminent 19th century botanist and "King of Colorado Botany" (Hooker's appellation). (Click for more biographical information about Parry.) |
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Helianthella
parryi Montane. Openings, woodlands.
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Helianthella
parryi Montane. Openings, woodlands.
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Helianthella
parryi Montane. Openings, woodlands.
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Range map © John Kartesz,
County Color Key
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Range map for Helianthella parryi |
Species present in state and native
Species present in state and exotic
Species not present in state
Species present and not rare
Species present and rare
Species extirpated (historic)
Species extinct
Species noxious
Species exotic and present
Eradicated
Questionable presence