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El Paso County Wildflower Project - Nodding Dwarf Sunflower - Jason Fazio

Nodding Dwarf Sunflower

Bloom Season: June - September

Habitat: This plant primarily inhabits the montane to subalpine zones (typically between 7,200 and 11,000 feet). Its ideal habitat includes: Aspen Groves, Moist Mountain Meadows, Open Woodlands and forest edges, shallow ravines, and moist, well-drained slopes.

Photography Notes: Susceptible to a breeze

Credits: Jason Fazio, 23 June

Helianthella quinquenervis, the fivenerve helianthella,[2] is a North American plant species in the family Asteraceae. It grows in the mountains of the western United States and northern Mexico. This include the Rockies, the Black Hills, the ranges of the Great Basin, and the northern Sierra Madre, from Montana, Oregon, and South Dakota south as far as western Chihuahua and Coahuila.[3][4][5]

Helianthella quinquenervis is a herbaceous plant up to 150 cm (4.9 ft) tall. Leaves are larger than those of most related species, up to 50 cm (20 in) long, each with 3 or 5 prominent veins running the length of the leaf. The plant usually produces only one yellow flower head per stem, nodding (hanging). Each head contains 8-21 bright yellow ray flowers surrounding numerous yellow disc flowers.[6]

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Nodding Dwarf Sunflower (native) is one of many wildflowers featured in the El Paso CO Wildflower Project, a community-built field guide documenting the wildflowers of El Paso County, Colorado.