Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Asterales > Asteraceae > Heterotheca > Heterotheca grandiflora

Heterotheca grandiflora (Telegraph Weed)

Synonyms: Heterotheca floribunda

Wikipedia Abstract

Heterotheca grandiflora is a species of flowering plant in the daisy family known by the common name Silk-grass goldenasteror telegraphweed. It is native to the southwestern United States (California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona) and northwestern Mexico (Baja California), but it can be found in other areas as an introduced species, such as Hawaii. It is often a roadside weed even where it is native.
View Wikipedia Record: Heterotheca grandiflora

Attributes

Lifespan [1]  Annual/Biennial/Perennial
Structure [2]  Herb

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
San Dimas Biosphere Reserve 17161 California, United States  

Ecosystems

Predators

Chlosyne gabbii (Gabb's Checkerspot)[3]
Dipodomys venustus (narrow-faced kangaroo rat)[4]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 3Jorrit 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.
♦ 4Dipodomys venustus, Troy L. Best, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 403, pp. 1-4 (1992)
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