Rag-leaf Bahia
Amauriopsis dissecta
Observed in the ponderosa forest in the Granite Mountain Wilderness, Yavapai Co., Arizona, USA. September 2012. By late summer the flowers become attractive to a variety of insect pollinators such as the beetle shown below.
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FLOWERS: Numerous yellow disc and ray florets in a composite head. Ray tips are rounded with a few shallow teeth.
Disc florets each develope into a single-seeded fruit
termed an achene or cypsela. The heads are up to 2 cm or more in diameter.
LEAVES: Pinnately divided into many segments.
ANNUAL: Regrows from seed each year, germinating in late spring and flowering by late
summer into fall.
RANGE: Found in montane meadows and forest throughout much of southwestern United
States.
FRUIT: The seeds are narrowly conical with no obvious crown.
UNARMED.
Asteraceae -- Sunflower Family
More Information:
- Southwest Environmental Information Network
- Southwest Colorado Wildflowers
- USDA Plant Profile
- Encyclopedia of Life
- Google Images
- Google Scholar Literature Search