Bidens menziesii Sherff:
United States (North America)

United States

Origin: Native

Regularity: Regularly occurring

Currently: Present

Confidence: Confident

Type of Residency: Year-round

Syntype for Coreopsis menziesii A. Gray
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Original publication and alleged type specimen examined
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): Wilkes Explor. Exped.
Year Collected: 1838
Locality: W. Maui., Maui, Hawaii, United States, Hawaiian Archipelago, Pacific Islands

Syntype for Coreopsis menziesii A. Gray
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Original publication and alleged type specimen examined
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): Wilkes Explor. Exped.
Year Collected: 1838
Locality: Hawaii, United States, Hawaiian Archipelago, Pacific Islands

Comments: Arid, leeward slopes and cliffs in shrubland vegetation. Shrubland communities include 'A'ali'i/Pili/Lovegrass (Dodonaea/Heteropogon/Eragrostis) Lowland Dry Mixed Shrub and Grassland, an open shrubland occurring on leeward trachyte-rich slopes, 'Aweoweo (Chenopodium) Subalpine Dry Shrubland, which is shrub-dominated with native trees scattered throughout, Ko'oko'olau (Bidens) Lowland Dry Shrubland, an open shrubland with a sparse cover of grasses where the species is codominant with Chenopodium oahuense on ridges and dissected slopes, and other dry, open to dense shrublands with Dodonaea viscosa, Myoporum sandwicensis, Sophora chrysophylla, Styphelia tameiameiae, and Chenopodium oahuense. Also present in native-dominated grassland communities, including Lovegrass/Mountain Pili (Eragrostis/Panicum) Montane Dry Grassland, which has a dense grass cover with scattered shrubs. In addition, occurs on slopes of cinder cones and in subalpine forest. 200-2200 m.

United States

Rounded National Status Rank: N2 - Imperiled

Rounded Global Status Rank: G2 - Imperiled

Reasons: Endemic to the state of Hawaii. Scattered on arid, leeward slopes and cliffs in shrubland vegetation, 200-750 m, on Molokai, and West Maui, and common on slopes of cinder cones and in subalpine forest, 750-2,200 m, on the leeward sides of and in the saddle between Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea, Hawaii. (Wagner, 1999)