Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Asterales > Asteraceae > Helianthus > Helianthus petiolarisHelianthus petiolaris (plains sunflower)Synonyms: Helianthus integrifolius var. gracilis; Helianthus integrifolius var. integrifolius; Helianthus petiolaris var. patens Helianthus petiolaris is a North American plant species in the sunflower family, commonly known as the prairie sunflower or lesser sunflower. Naturalist and botanist Thomas Nuttall was the first to describe the prairie sunflower in 1821. The word petiolaris in Latin means, “having a petiole”. The originated in western United States, but has since expanded east. The prairie sunflower is considered a be a weed. |
| Allergen Potential [1] | Medium |  | | Edible [2] | May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details. | | Flower Type [2] | Hermaphrodite | | Lifespan [2] | Annual | | Pollinators [2] | Bees, Flies | | Structure [3] | Herb | | | Height [2] | 9.84 feet (3 m) |
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IUCN Category |
Area acres |
Location |
Species |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Agate Fossil Beds National Monument |
V |
4731 |
Nebraska, United States |
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Arches National Park |
II |
76539 |
Utah, United States |
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Avon Gorge Woodlands |
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376 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Badlands National Park |
II |
178535 |
South Dakota, United States |
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Canyonlands National Park |
II |
335430 |
Utah, United States |
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Carlsbad Caverns National Park |
II |
15448 |
New Mexico, United States |
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Central Plains Biosphere Reserve |
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15345 |
United States |
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Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument |
III |
5997 |
Colorado, United States |
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Fort Larned National Historic Site |
III |
706 |
Kansas, United States |
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Gateway National Recreation Area |
V |
1807 |
New Jersey, United States |
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Grand Canyon National Park |
II |
1210128 |
Arizona, United States |
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Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore |
II |
8272 |
Indiana, United States |
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Jornada Biosphere Reserve |
Ib |
30913 |
New Mexico, United States |
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Natural Bridges National Monument |
III |
7412 |
Utah, United States |
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Niagara Escarpment Biosphere Reserve |
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470167 |
Ontario, Canada |
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Petrified Forest National Park |
II |
44522 |
Arizona, United States |
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Scotts Bluff National Monument |
V |
3185 |
Nebraska, United States |
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Shortgrass Steppe LTER Site Long Term Ecological Research |
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Colorado, United States |
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Walnut Canyon National Monument |
V |
3386 |
Arizona, United States |
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White Sands National Monument |
III |
139922 |
New Mexico, United States |
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Wind Cave National Park |
II |
29471 |
South Dakota, United States |
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Yellowstone Biosphere Reserve |
II |
2196863 |
Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, United States |
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Zion National Park |
II |
135667 |
Utah, United States |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000) ♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935 ♦ 4FOODS OF SCALED QUAIL (CALLIPEPLA SQUAMATA) IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO, TROY L. BEST, The Texas Journal of Science, Vol. XXXVII, Nos. 2&3, September 1985, p. 155-162 ♦ 5Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics. ♦ 6Food Habits of Rodents Inhabiting Arid and Semi-arid Ecosystems of Central New Mexico, ANDREW G. HOPE AND ROBERT R. PARMENTER, Special Publication of the Museum of Southwestern Biology, NUMBER 9, pp. 1–75 (2007) ♦ 7Clements, R. E., and F. L. Long. 1923, Experimental pollination. An outline of the ecology of flowers and insects. Washington, D.C., USA, Carnegie Institute of Washington. |
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
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