Winter's Sunflower (Helianthus winteri)

Global Rank: G2 - Imperiled
Legal Status: N/A
Family: Asteraceae
State: CA
Nature Serve ID: 931235
Lifeform: Shrub
Date Inducted in National Collection:

Description:

Where is Winter's Sunflower (Helianthus winteri) located in the wild?

States & Provinces:

Winter's Sunflower can be found in California

Which CPC Partners conserve Winter's Sunflower (Helianthus winteri)?

California Botanic Garden

Not Sponsored

Assigned 12/24/21

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Conservation Actions

Center for Plant Conservation

10/19/2021

In 2013 Stebbins et. al published "Helianthus winteri (Asteraceae), a New Perennial Species From the Southern Sierra Nevada Foothills, California" in Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Floristic Botany. The authors detail how Helianthus winteri differs from H. annuus, and determine it to be a separate species.

Center for Plant Conservation

10/19/2021

In a conference paper, "A comparison of photosynthesis and secondary chemistry between Helianthus winteri and Helianthus annuus" presented at ESA 2014, John Constable et. al considered differences in gas exchanges between two Helianthus species.