Native to Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Central American Pacific Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela; introduced into 52 botanical countries across Africa, Temperate Asia, Tropical Asia, Australasia, Pacific, Northern America, and Southern America (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.
Location
Nicaragua, Atlantico Sur
12.180972, -83.036
Location Remarks
Corn Island, west shore, low beach dunes near Hotel El Paraiso
Collectors
W. Douglas Stevens, Olga Martha Montiel, Christopher Davidson, Sharon R. Christoph
Notes
Trailing on beach sand, heads erect, orange.
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Asterales
Family
Asteraceae
Genus
Sphagneticola
Specific Epithet
trilobata
Authorship
(L.) Pruski
What is EDGE?
Evolutionary distinctiveness
Lower
ED 0.9
Part of a well-represented branch of the plant tree of life, with many close relatives.
Threat status
Modelled estimate
EDGE score
0.1
Global rank
#282,754 of 335,497
Top 85%
Extinction probability
10%