Heterotheca fulcrata

Heterotheca fulcrata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	Asterales
Family:	Asteraceae
Tribe:	Astereae
Genus:	Heterotheca
Species:	H. fulcrata
Binomial name
Heterotheca fulcrata (Greene) Shinners 1951
Synonyms[1]
Synonymy Chrysopsis fulcrata Greene 1898 Chrysopsis cryptocephala Wooton & Standl. Chrysopsis elata Osterh. Chrysopsis resinolens A.Nelson Chrysopsis amplifolia Rydb. Chrysopsis caudata Rydb. Chrysopsis nitidula Wooton & Standl. Heterotheca nitidula (Wooton & Standl.) G.L.Nesom Heterotheca arizonica (Semple) G.L.Nesom Chrysopsis senilis Wooton & Standl.

Heterotheca fulcrata, rockyscree false goldenaster,^[2] is a North American species of flowering plant in the aster family. It has been found in northern Mexico (Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas) and in the western United States (from Arizona, New Mexico, western Texas north to Wyoming and Idaho).^{[3][4][5][6][7]}

Varieties^[6][7]

• Heterotheca fulcrata var. amplifolia (Rydberg) Semple - Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona, southwestern Utah, southern New Mexico
• Heterotheca fulcrata var. arizonica Semple - from Nevada to Coahuila
• Heterotheca fulcrata var. fulcrata - from Wyoming + Idaho south to Arizona and Tamaulipas
• Heterotheca fulcrata var. senilis (Wooton & Standley) Semple - southern Arizona, Southern New Mexico, western Texas, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila

References

1. The Plant List, Heterotheca fulcrata (Greene) Shinners
2. "Heterotheca fulcrata". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
3. Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map
4. Tropicos, specimen listing for Heterotheca fulcrata (Greene) Shinners
5. SEINet, Southwestern Biodiversity, Arizona chapter photos, distribution map, description
6. University of Waterloo (Canada), Astereae Lab, Heterotheca fulcrata distribution maps
7. Flora of North America, Heterotheca fulcrata (Greene) Shinners, 1951.

External links

• photo of herbarium specimen at Missouri Botanical Garden, collected in New Mexico in 1897, isotype of Chrysopsis fulcrata / Heterotheca fulcrata