Biology:Pseudobahia heermannii
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Short description: Species of plant
| Pseudobahia heermannii | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Genus: | Pseudobahia |
| Species: | P. heermannii
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| Binomial name | |
| Pseudobahia heermannii (Durand) Rydb.
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Pseudobahia heermannii is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common names foothill sunburst[1] and brittlestem.
It is endemic to California , where it occurs in grassland, chaparral, woodlands, and other habitat in the Sierra Nevada foothills and a section of the Central Coast Ranges.
It is an annual herb growing 10 to 30 centimeters tall with a pale green to reddish woolly or cobwebby stem. The leaves are divided into several narrow, toothed lobes. The inflorescence is a solitary flower head with a small, hard, cuplike involucre of about 8 fused phyllaries. From the involucre bloom about 8 golden ray florets around a center of hairless disc florets.
References
- ↑ "Pseudobahia heermannii". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=PSHE. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q7254526 entry
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