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Heterosperma pinnatum (wingpetal)

Synonyms: Heterosperma pinnatum var. pinnatum; Heterosperma pinnatum var. typicum; Heterosperma tagetinum; Heterospermum tagetinum

Wikipedia Abstract

Heterosperma pinnatum, the wingpetal, is a New World species of plants in the sunflower family. It has a discontinuous distribution in North and South America, having been found in Bolivia, Venezuela, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and the southwestern United States (Arizona, New Mexico, western Texas, southern Colorado), United States (Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Colorado), Bolivia, Venezuela
View Wikipedia Record: Heterosperma pinnatum

Attributes

Lifespan [1]  Annual
Structure [1]  Herb

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Chiricahua National Monument V 1421 Arizona, United States
Fort Bowie National Historic Site III 1004 Arizona, United States

Predators

Pogonomyrmex barbatus (red harvester ant)[2]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 2Seed predation and dispersal in a dominant desert plant: Opuntia, ants, birds, and mammals, Mario González-Espinosa and Pedro F. Quintana-Ascencio, Frugivores and Seed Dispersal (eds A. Estrada & T. H. Fleming.), pp. 273–284. Dr W. Junk, Publishers, Dordrecht.
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0