Biology:Hemizonia clementina

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Short description: Species of flowering plant


Hemizonia clementina
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H. clementina
Binomial name
Hemizonia clementina
Brandegee

Hemizonia clementina, known by the common name island tarweed, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, endemic to the Channel Islands of California.

Range

Hemizonia clementina is found in all of the Channel Islands except San Miguel and Santa Rosa.

Description

Hemizonia clementina is a sprawling shrub with a woody base, thick leaves and small yellow flowers. It forms thick mats scattered in coastal sage shrub on east and middle Anacapa Island where its acid-green foliage is conspicuous from a distance.[1]

References

  1. Natural History of the Islands of California, Allan A. Schoenherr, C. Robert Feldmeth, and Michael J. Emerson, California Natural History Guides, University of California Press, Berkeley 94720, 1999, ISBN:0-520-21197-9


External links

Wikidata ☰ Q16983016 entry