Eastern Mojave Vegetation Coll. No. 3533, Heliomeris multiflora var. multiflora.  
 

 

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Photographed 26 October 2025.

Native and Naturalized Flora of the Golden Area, Jefferson County, Colorado
Asteraceae

Heliomeris multiflora Nutt. var. multiflora.  Showy Golden Eye.

North Table Mountain Open Space (City of Golden), Jefferson County, Colorado. Along a social trail towards the north end of the North Table Mountain Open Space, in a hummocky area that is probably an ancient landslide, 2.42 km. north of the GNIS location of Golden 39.77712°N, 105.22502°W. WGS 1984 Elev. 1910 m. Also seen or collected nearby: Artemisia ludoviciana, Ericameria nauseosa vars. graveolens and nauseosa, Gutierrezia sarothrae, Liatris punctata, Turritis glabra, Toxicoscordiom paniculatum, and Bromus inermis. Same as Coll. No. 3531.

Collected by permit: City of Golden, 2025, issued: Mar 14, 2025, to: Tom Schweich.

Tom Schweich 3533. 18-Sep-2025

Coll. No. 3531 & 3533, 18 September 2025, characters observed: Perennial herb, to 45 cm.; Stem, proximally glabrate to strigose distally; Leaves, cauline, opposite to few alternate distally, petiole, 3 mm., blade 52 mm. × 13 mm. wide, reduced distally, rhombo-lanceolate, strigose, margins, mostly entire, larger leaves barely serrulate; Inflorescence, heads, 4-10 per stem, showy, not overtopped by leaves; Peduncles, indistinct; Involucre, 5.5 mm. × 10 mm. wide, hemispheric; Phyllaries, in 2-3 ±equal series, 5.5 mm. × 1.5 mm. wide, green, veins, #3, prominent adaxially, margins, flat, tips, acute; Receptacle, paleate; Palea, 5 mm. × 0.9 mm. wide; Perianth, 2 or more whorls; Ray flowers, many, tube, 1.2 mm. + blade 7 mm. × 2.8 mm. wide, yellow, sterile; Disk flowers, many, tube 2.5 mm. + lobes 0.5 mm., yellow, bisexual; Pappus, absent; Cypsela, 1.5 mm. × 0.6 mm. wide, obconic, glabrous, light brown, beakless.

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