Four-nerve Daisy (5)
The genus Tetraneuris, Four-nerve Daisy, is distinguished by the petal tips which have three notches. Tetraneuris means four-nerved and refers to the four veins in the petal or ray flower. These can be seen in the photo of Ives' Four-nerve Daisy below.
Perky Sue
Tetraneuris argentea (Hymenoxys argentea)
Family:
Sunflower (Asteraceae)
AKA:
Photo taken on:
May 28, 2008
Location:
White Rock, NM
Life Zones:
Plains to foothills
Habitat:
Dry hillsides and mesas
Grows to 16" with hairy leaves, bracts and stems and leaves on the flower stem. Flower head has 8 to 14 rays.
Flora of North America reference.
Stemmy Four-nerve Daisy
Tetraneuris scaposa var. scaposa
Family:
Sunflower (Asteraceae)
AKA:
Plains Yellow Daisy, Thrift-leaf Perky Sue
Photo taken on:
May 18, 2009
Location:
White Rock, NM
Life Zones:
Plains to foothills
Habitat:
Dry hillsides, mesas, roadsides
Grows to 12" with narrow, oblong, sparsely hairy, gray-green, basal leaves and hairy stems and bracts. Flower head has 12 to 26 rays.
Flora of North America reference.
Ives' Four-nerved Daisy
Tetraneuris ivesiana
Family:
Sunflower (Asteraceae)
AKA:
Perky Sue
Photo taken on:
April 13, 2015
Location:
Plaza Blanca, Abiquiu, NM
Life Zones:
Plains to foothills
Habitat:
Open sandy areas, roadsides
Grows to 10" with mostly basal, tightly clustered, narrow leaves pointing upwards. Stems and bracts are hairy but leaves are not, unlike the species above.
Flora of North America reference.
Stemless Four-nerved Daisy
Tetraneuris acaulis var. acaulis
Family:
Sunflower (Asteraceae)
AKA:
Butte Marigold, Stemless Goldflower
Photo taken on:
June 15, 2019
Location:
FS Rd 137, Carson NF, NM
Life Zones:
Plains to montane
Habitat:
Slopes, roadsides
Grows 4" to 8" with leafless stems from a rosette of densely hairy basal leaves. Leaves are spatulate to lance-shaped. The stems and bracts are also densely hairy. Flower heads have 8-14 ray flowers.
Flora of North America reference.
Goldflower
Tetraneuris acaulis var. caespitosa
Family:
Sunflower (Asteraceae)
AKA:
Caespitose Four-nerved Daisy
Photo taken on:
July 9, 2015
Location:
Old Monarch Pass, CO
Life Zones:
Montane to alpine
Habitat:
Forest edges, fell-fields
Grows to only 3" high with hairy stems and hairy, simple lance-shaped leaves. Identified by the notched petals and densely hairy phyllaries compared to Alpine Goldenweeds.
Flora of North America reference.