Gaillardia spathulata A. Gray

Sokoloff, Paul C., Freebury, Colin E., Hamilton, Paul B. & Saarela, Jeffery M., 2016, The " Martian " flora: new collections of vascular plants, lichens, fungi, algae, and cyanobacteria from the Mars Desert Research Station, Utah, Biodiversity Data Journal 4, pp. 8176-8176 : 8176

Gaillardia spathulata A. Gray

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: 367; recordedBy: Sokoloff, Paul C.; Taxon: scientificName: Gaillardiaspathulata A. Gray; kingdom: Plantae; phylum: Angiosperms; class: Eudicots; order: Asterales; family: Asteraceae; genus: Gaillardia; specificEpithet: spathulata; scientificNameAuthorship: A. Gray; Location: continent: North America; country: United States of America; countryCode: USA; stateProvince: Utah; county: Wayne County; municipality: Hanksville; locality: Mars Desert Research Station ; verbatimLocality: Sandstone plateau immediately southwest of Mars Desert Research Station, alongside ATV trail; verbatimElevation: 1412 m; verbatimLatitude: 38°24'22.4"N; verbatimLongitude: 110°47'40.3"W; coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: 50; Identification: identifiedBy: Sokoloff, Paul C.; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: verbatimEventDate: September 19, 2015; habitat: Dry sandy soil; Record Level: institutionID: CMN; collectionID: CAN 607524; collectionCode: CAN; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Notes

A common plant of sandy desert soils ( Strother 2006a), this species was abundant on the plateau immediately southwest of MDRS. This species was previously recorded for the nearby San Rafael Swell ( Harris 1983).

Supplemental File: CAN 607524 (Suppl. material 33).