Posts Tagged ‘Gutierrezia elegans’

The Lone Mesa Snakeweed The Denver Post reported that a retired English professor and amateur botanist named Al Schneider and a Colorado State University Botany student named Peggy Lyon discovered a new plant in the Asteraceae, or sunflower, family and it was called Gutierrezia elegans. (“Goo-tee-ah-REEZ-ee-ah”) Al and Peggy named their variety “elegans” for its…