Biology:Xylorhiza

Short description: Genus of flowering plants

Woodyasters
Xylorhiza tortifolia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	Asterales
Family:	Asteraceae
Tribe:	Astereae
Genus:	Xylorhiza Nutt.
Synonyms
Machaeranthera sect. Xylorhiza (Nutt.) Cronquist & D.D. Keck

Xylorhiza is a genus of flowering plants in the sunflower family, are known as woodyasters. These are daisylike wildflowers usually having blue to purple or white ray flowers with yellow centers of disc florets. Woodyasters are native to western North America.

Species

• Xylorhiza cognata - Mecca woodyaster - California (Imperial + Riverside Counties)
• Xylorhiza confertifolia - Henrieville woodyaster - Utah (Kane, Wayne, + Garfield Counties)
• Xylorhiza cronquistii - Cronquist's woodyaster - Utah (Kane + Garfield Counties)
• Xylorhiza frutescens - Baja California
• Xylorhiza glabriuscula - smooth woodyaster - Wyoming, Utah (Daggett County), Colorado (Routt + Moffat Counties), Montana (Carbon County), South Dakota (Harding, Butte, Fall River Counties)
• Xylorhiza orcuttii - Orcutt's aster - California (Imperial + San Diego Counties)
• Xylorhiza tortifolia - Mojave woodyaster - California , Nevada, Utah, Arizona
• Xylorhiza venusta - charming woodyaster - Utah, Colorado, New Mexico (Colfax County)
• Xylorhiza wrightii - Big Bend woodyaster - western Texas , Chihuahua

External links

• USDA Plants Profile for Xylorhiza (woodyasters)
• Calflfora Database: Xylorhiza species in California — images + info links.
• Jepson Manual eFlora (TJM2) treatment of Xylorhiza

Wikidata ☰ Q2711260 entry