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Helianthella quinquenervis

Common names: aspen sunflower, Five nerve helianthella, Aspen Sunflower, little sunflower, sunflower, Aspen sunflower, Little Sunflower, subalpine sunflower, sunflower species, aster

Taxonomy: Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Asterales > Asteraceae

Roles: host plant, study subject, native vegetation, referenced species, mentioned, indicator species, heterospecific pollen donor, pollen source, habitat vegetation, food plant, referenced

ITIS TSN: 37597

Synonyms: HEQU, Helianthella, H. quinquenervis, Hequ, Helianthella quinquenervis, HELQUI, aspen sunflower, helianthella_quinquenervis, Hel Qui, Helianthella spp., H. quinquinervis, H. quinquernervis

External: RMBL Collections · iNaturalist · iDigBio · GenBank

Papers: 141 | Mentions: 155

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Publications (141)

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Fitness costs and benefits of a non-native floral resource for subalpine solitary bees

2025OikosRole: text_match

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Nutrient niche dynamics among wild pollinators

2025Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological SciencesRole: host plant

Helianthella quinquenervis

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Publications (141)

Fitness costs and benefits of a non-native floral resource for subalpine solitary bees

Nutrient niche dynamics among wild pollinators

Quantifying ethanol in bumble bee honey and Colorado rocky mountain wildflowers

Responses to climate change – insights and limitations from herbaceous plant model species

Temperature and relative humidity effects on nectar quantity, nectar quality, and plant-pollinator interactions

The effect of changing floral density on pollinator networks in a subalpine meadow environment

Effect of Nitrogen on Linaria vulgaris and Native Species

Getting to the Root of It: Effects of Castilleja Root Hemiparasitism on Plant Community Structure and Function

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Vegetation Appendix Materials for Vegetation and Wildlife Studies for the Mount Emmons Project

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Helianthella

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Nuttall's Larkspur

Potentilla

Solitary bee genera differ in foraging activity timing and temperature; Evidence of a seasonal dietary shift in Hoplitis fulgida

The effects of elevation on flower abundance and pollinator visits on Helianthella quinquenervis

What are parasitoid wasps visiting Helianthella quinquenervis targeting, and could they influence plant fitness and reproduction?

Determining pollinator behavior differences bumblebees and flies.

Do pollinator and plant diversity vary with microclimate heterogeneity?

Effects of warming, dominant species removal, and accelerated snowmelt on aboveground plant traits in the Colorado Rocky Mountains

Effects of an introduced mustard, Thlaspi arvense, on soil fungal communities in subalpine meadows

Environmental and Genetic Effects of Elevation on Plant Defense

Habitat selection in a fluctuating ground squirrel population: Density - dependence and fitness consequences

Removing flowers of a generalist plant changes pollinator visitation, composition, and interaction network structure

Revealing the direct and indirect effects of climate change on soil nutrient dynamics and forage resources in mountain ecosystems

Sweet and salty: Pollinators and sodium-enriched nectar

Can flowers affect land surface albedo and soil microclimates?

Effects of soil moisture and temperature on plant palatability and herbivore plant preference

From the ground up: Building predictions for how climate change will affect belowground mutualisms, floral traits, and bee behavior

How does incorporating microclimate data into ecological niche models change our estimates of the climatic niche of vascular plant species?

Lagged and dormant season climate better predict plant vital rates than climate during the growing season

Tests for Elevational Gradients in Herbivore Abundance and Plant Resistance in the Rocky Mountain Ecosystem

Variation of Pollen Mass Across Species, Habitat Types, and Time

Are ants botanists? Ant associative learning of plant chemicals mediates foraging for carbohydrates

Behavioral and spatial dynamics in a fluctuating population of golden-mantled ground squirrels (<i>Callospermophilus lateralis</i>)

Birds Perceive More Intraspecific Color Variation in Bird-Pollinated Than Bee-Pollinated Flowers

Effects of climate change on alpine plants and their pollinators

Effects of frost and neighborhood on Tephritid fly herbivory of <i>Erigeron speciosus</i>

Quantifying Nectar Trait Responses to Natural Variation in Water Availability in Subalpine Plant Communities

Temporal flexibility in the structure of plant–pollinator interaction networks

Adaptation and diversification of bluebells <i>Mertensia</i> spp., Boranginaceae

Comparing predictive measures and model functions for estimating plant biomass: lessons from a sagebrush–rabbitbrush community

Early snowmelt projected to cause population decline in a subalpine plant

Fungal colonization of plant roots is resistant to nitrogen addition and resilient to dominant species losses

Low to Mid Elevational Resurvey of Bumble bee Distributions in Response to Climate Change

Niche breadth changes in response to environmental perturbation: the impact of early snowmelt on subalpine plant-pollinator specialization

Plant chemical mediation of ant behavior

Progressive sensitivity of trophic levels to warming underlies an elevational gradient in ant–aphid mutualism strength

Quantifying Nectar Resources in Bumble Bee Visited Plants

Reproductive losses due to climate change? Induced earlier flowering are not the primary threat to plant population viability in a perennial herb

Surveying historical patterns in vegetation change (1929-2019) in the upper East River Valley using RMBL's archival herbarium records

The effects of climate change and biodiversity loss on mutualisms

Are ants botanists?: Ant associative learning of plant volatiles

Characterizing nectar content in wet and dry subalpine meadows during an extreme summer drought

Conditional Exploitation and Context-Dependent Fitness Consequences of Pollination Mutualisms

Effects of Climate Change on Plants, Pollinators and Their Interactions

Effects of Light Availability on Aspen Understory Species

Plant dominance in a subalpine montane meadow: biotic vs. abiotic controls of subordinate diversity within and across sites

The Effect of Climate Change on Plant Communities in the Rocky Mountains: How floral traits differ along an elevational gradient and in reciprocally transplanted communities

Aboveground resilience to species loss but belowground resistance to nitrogen addition in a montane plant community

Biotic and abiotic drivers of plant symbionts determine plant performance, the maintenance of diversity, and response to global change

Floral Albedo as a Response Factor of Climate Change, A case study in <i>Helianthella quinquenervis</i>

Intraspecific variation in traits reduces ability of trait-based models to predict community structure

Neighborhood Influence on Plant Interactions with Seed-Eating Flies and Pollinating Bees

The Effect of Dominant Floral Resource Removal on Plant-Pollinator Interactions

The ability of ants to associatively learn based on olfactory chemical cues produced by plants.

Variation in Undisturbed Plant and Animal Populations and Its Implications for Studies of Recovering Ecosystems

Effects of <i>Helianthella quinquenervis</i> Extrafloral Nectaries on Ant Abundance and Community Structure

Effects of Insect Damage to <i>Helianthella quinquenervis</i> (Asteraceae) Inflorescences on Pollinator Visitation

Effects of climate change on phenologies and distributions of bumble bees and the plants they visit

Empirical tests of withinâ€and acrossâ€species energetics in a diverse plant community