Mentzelia pumila

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• Description
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• Taxonomy
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Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Physical Description

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 2,650 meters (0 to 8,694 feet).[1]

Biology

Reproduction

Duration: Biennial

Taxonomy

Notes

Publishing author : Torr. & A.Gray Publication : Fl. N. Amer. (Torr. & A. Gray) 1(3): 535 1840 [Jun 1840]

Similar Species

Members of the genus Mentzelia

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 104 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

M. affinis (Hydra Blazingstar) · M. albescens (Wavy-Leaf Stickleaf) · M. albicaulis (White Blazingstar) · M. albicaulis var. albicaulis (Whitestem Blazingstar) · M. argillicola (Pioche Blazingstar) · M. argillosa (Arapien Blazingstar) · M. aspera (Tropical Blazingstar) · M. asperula (Mountain Stickleaf) · M. candelariae (Candelaria Blazing-Star) · M. chrysantha (Gold Blazing Star) · M. congesta (United Blazingstar) · M. congesta var. congesta (Ventana Blazingstar) · M. conspicua (Conspicuous Blazingstar) · M. crocea (Sierra Blazingstar) · M. cronquistii (Cronquist's Blazingstar) · M. decapetala (Evening Star) · M. densa (Royal Gorge Blazingstar) · M. desertorum (Desert Blazingstar) · M. dispersa (Bushy Blazingstar) · M. dispersa S.Watson var. dispersa S.Watson (Bushy Blazingstar) · M. dispersa S.Watson var. latifolia (Rydb.) J.F.Macbr. (Bushy Blazingstar) · M. dispersa S.Watson var. obtusa Jeps. (Nevada Blazingstar) · M. dispersa var. compacta (Nevada Blazingstar) · M. dispersa var. dispersa (Bushy Blazingstar) · M. dispersa var. latifolia (Bushy Blazingstar) · M. dispersa var. obtusa (Nevada Blazingstar) · M. eremophila (Pinyon Blazingstar) · M. floridana (Poor-Man's Patch) · M. goodrichii (Goodrich Blazingstar) · M. gracilenta (Grass Blazingstar) · M. hirsutissima (Hairy Blazingstar) · M. humilis (Gypsum Blazing-Star) · M. incisa (Streambank Blazingstar) · M. involucrata (White Bract Stickleaf) · M. involucrata var. involucrata (Whitebract Blazingstar) · M. involucrata var. involucrata S.Watson (Whitebract Blazingstar) · M. involucrata var. megalantha (Whitebract Blazingstar) · M. involucrata var. megalantha I.M.Johnst. (Whitebract Blazingstar) · M. inyoensis (Inyo Blazingstar) · M. isolata (Isolated Blazingstar) · M. jonesii (Jones Stickleaf) · M. laciniata (Cut-Leaf Stickleaf) · M. laevicaulis (Blazing Star) · M. laevicaulis var. laevicaulis (Smoothstem Blazingstar) · M. laevicaulis var. parviflora (Smoothstem Blazingstar) · M. leucophylla (Ash Meadows Blazing Star) · M. lindheimeri (Lindheimer Stickleaf) · M. lindleyi (Blazing Star) · M. marginata (Colorado Blazingstar) · M. mexicana (Mexican Blazingstar) · M. micrantha (San Luis Blazingstar) · M. mollis (Smooth Blazingstar) · M. montana (Mountain Blazingstar) · M. multicaulis (Many-Stem Stickleaf) · M. multicaulis flumensevera (Manystem Blazingstar) · M. multicaulis var. librina (Manystem Blazingstar) · M. multicaulis var. multicaulis (Manystem Blazingstar) · M. multicaulis var. multicaulis (Osterh.) A.Nelson ex J.Darl. (Manystem Blazingstar) · M. multiflora (Adonis Blazing-Star) · M. multiflora var. integra (Adonis Blazingstar) · M. multiflora var. integra M.E.Jones (Adonis Blazingstar) · M. multiflora var. longiloba (Adonis Blazingstar) · M. multiflora var. multiflora (Multiflower Stickleaf) · M. nitens (Shining Blazingstar) · M. nitens var. leptocaulis (Shining Blazingstar) · M. nitens var. leptocaulis J.Darl. (Shining Blazingstar) · M. nitens var. nitens (California Blazingstar) · M. nitens var. nitens Greene (California Blazingstar) · M. nuda (Blazing Star) · M. nuda var. nuda (Bractless Blazingstar) · M. nuda var. stricta (Bractless Blazingstar) · M. obscura (Pacific Blazingstar) · M. oligosperma (Beggars Patches) · M. oreophila (Argus Blazingstar) · M. pachyrhiza (Coahuila Blazingstar) · M. packardiae (Packard's Blazingstar) · M. parviflora (Smoothstem Blazingstar) · M. pectinata (San Joaquin Blazing-Star) · M. perennis (Perennial Blazingstar) · M. polita (Polished Blazing-Star) · M. pterosperma (Wing-Seed Blazing-Star) · M. pumila (Desert Blazing Star) · M. pumila var. lagarosa (Dwarf Mentzelia) · M. pumila var. lagarosa Thorne (Dwarf Mentzelia) · M. pumila var. pumila (Golden Blazingstar) · M. pumila var. pumila Nutt. ex Torr. & Gray (Dwarf Mentzelia) · M. reflexa (Panamint Blazingstar) · M. reverchonii (Reverchon's Blazingstar) · M. rusbyi (Rusby Stickleaf) · M. saxicola (El Paso Blazingstar) · M. shultziorum (Shultz Stickleaf) · M. sinuata (Leechleaf Blazingstar) · M. speciosa (Jeweled Blazingstar) · M. springeri (Santa Fe Blazingstar) · M. strictissima (Grassland Blazingstar) · M. texana (Texas Blazingstar) · M. torreyi (Torrey Stickleaf) · M. torreyi Gray var. acerosa (M.E.Jones) Barneby (Torrey's Blazingstar) · M. torreyi Gray var. torreyi Gray (Torrey's Blazingstar) · M. torreyi var. acerosa (Torrey's Blazingstar)

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Further Reading

• 1997 IUCN red list of threatened plants Cambridge: IUCN, World Conservation Union, 1998 url p. 384.
• Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. Washington: U. S. Govt. Print. Off., 1897- url p. 101, p. 57.
• Bibliographical index to North American botany; or, Citations of authorities for all the recorded indigenous and naturalized species of the flora of North America, with a chronological arrangement of the synonymy. by Sereno Watson. Washington, Smithsonian Institution, 1878. url , p. 391.
• Botanic contributions relating to the flora of western North America [by] Gray, Engelmann, Torrey [and] Fre?mont. v.p., 1843-53 url p. 141.
• Britton, N. L. (ed.). North American flora. [New York]New York Botanical Garden. url p. 920.
• Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories / Department of the Interior. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1874- url p. 237.
• Catalog of hymenoptera in America north of Mexico / prepared cooperatively by specialists on the various groups of Hymenoptera under the direction of Karl V. Krombein. .. [et al.]. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979- url , , , p. 1760, p. 1906, p. 1909, p. 1910, p. 1942.
• Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 16 1912-1916 Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1890- url p. 150, p. 363.
• Distribution of vascular plant species of special concern and limited distribution in the Pryor Mountain Desert; Carbon County, Montana / prepared by Peter Lesica and Peter L. Achuff; prepared for USDI Bureau of Land Management, Montana State Office. Helena, Mont.: Montana Natural Heritage Program, [1992] url , p. 26, p. 35, p. 6.
• Elementary flora of the Northwest, Cincinnati [etc.]American Book Company[c1914] url .
• Entomological news. [Philadelphia]American Entomological Society, 1925- url p. 275.
• First report on the flora of Wyoming / Aven Nelson. Laramie: Wyoming Experiment Station, 1896. url p. 114.
• Flora of the Rocky Mountains and adjacent plains, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and neighboring parts of Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, and British Columbia / by P.A. Rydberg. New York: The author, 1922. url p. 571.
• Great Basin naturalist memoirs. 1987 [Provo, Utah]Brigham Young University, 1976-1992. url p. 416.
• Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico: synoptic catalog, second supplement / prepared by the staff and collaborators of the Hymenoptera Unit, Insect Identification and Parasite Introduction Research Branch, Entomology Research Division, Agricultural Research Service, under the Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1967. url p. 446, p. 449.
• Journal of ethnobiology. 11 1991 Flagstaff, Ariz.: Center for Western Studies, 1981- url p. 241, p. 245, p. 247.
• Leaflets of western botany. San Fransisco:[J. T. Howell], 1932-1966. url .
• Manual of the botany (Phaenogamia and Pteridophyta) of the Rocky mountain region, from New Mexico to the British boundary. By John M. Coulter. and Chicago: Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor, and company, 1885. url p. 107.
• Manual of the botany (Phænogamia and Pteridophyta) of the Rocky mountain region, from New Mexico to the British boundary. and Chicago, Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor, and Company, 1885. url .
• National list of scientific plant names. [Washington, D.C.]: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service, 1982- url p. 262.
• New manual of botany of the central Rocky mountains (vascular plants) Cincinnati [etc.]American Book Company[c1909] url .
• Paleoecology of the Hay Hollow site, Arizona / Vorsila L. Bohrer, Assistant Professor, Biology, University of Massachusetts. Foreword: Paul S. Martin, Chairman Emeritus, Anthropology. [Chicago]Field Museum of Natural History, 1972. url p. 13.
• Phytologia. Bronx Park, New York, H.A. Gleason and H.N. Moldenke, url p. 492, p. 9.
• Plant community classification for vegetation on BLM lands, Pryor Mountains, Carbon County, Montana / Robert L. DeVelice & Peter Lesica; for USDI Bureau of Land Management, State Office. Helena, Mt.: Montana Natural Heritage Program, c1993. url p. 50.
• Plant species of concern / Helena, Mont.: Montana Natural Heritage Program, c2003. url .
• Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th series. San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences. url p. 238, p. 241.
• Rapid ecological assessment of selected state lands in southcentral Montana for plant species of special concern / prepared by James P. Vanderhorst; prepared for Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks. Helena, MT: Montana Natural Heritage Program, [1993] url p. 5, p. 6.
• Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Made under the direction of the secretary of war, in 1853-[6]. .. 5 1856 Washington, A.O.P. Nicholson, Printer [etc.]1855-60. url p. 360.
• Sensitive, threatened, and endangered vascular plants of Montana / Peter Lesica, J. Stephen Shelly. Helena, Mont.: Montana Natural Heritage Program, Montana State Library, 1991. url p. 43, p. 87.
• Smithsonian contributions to knowledge. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1848-1916. url p. 73.
• Surveys of significant plant resources in southeast and south-central Montana on the Billings and Miles City field offices of the Bureau of Land Management / Helena, MT: Montana Natural Heritage Program, c2006. url , , .
• Text-book of western botany: consisting of Coulter's Manual of the botany of the Rocky mountains, to which is prefixed Gray's lessons in botany. For the use of schools and colleges between the Mississippi river and the Rocky moun Chicago: Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor, and Company, 1885. url p. 107.
• The Asa Gray bulletin. 2 1953 Ann Arbor, Mich. url p. 280.
• The Great Basin naturalist. Provo, Utah: M.L. Bean Life Science Museum, Brigham Young University, 1939-1999. url , , p. 363, p. 365, p. 46, p. 555, p. 556, p. 558, p. 582, p. 771, p. 772, p. 773, p. 85.
• The University of Kansas science bulletin. 21 1933 [Lawrence]: University of Kansas, 1902-1996. url p. 442, p. 707, p. 736, p. 736.
• Transactions of the. .. annual meetings of the Kansas Academy of Science. Topeka, Kan.: Kansas Pub. House, 1883-1901. url p. 54.
• Wrightia. 4 1968 Richardson, Tex. [etc.]University of Texas at Dallas. url p. 24.

Notes

Contributors

• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 28, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 5 providers.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
• The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Dec 27, 2011.
• USDA, NRCS. 2005. The PLANTS Database, Version 3.5 (http://plants.usda.gov). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 28, 2008:

• Arizona State University, International Institute for Species Exploration: The Deaver Herbarium, Northern Arizona University
• Missouri Botanical Garden
• The New York Botanical Garden: Vascular Plant Type Specimens
• USDA PLANTS: USDA PLANTS Database
• Utah State University: USU-UTC Specimen Database

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2668140
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-503800
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:545474-1
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 503800
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 157504-2
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: PDLOA031G0
• U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: MEPUP2 MEP
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 50000

Footnotes

1. Mean = 1,541.740 meters (5,058.202 feet), Standard Deviation = 743.480 based on 58 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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