Biology:Machaeranthera asteroides
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Short description: Species of flowering plant
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| Species: | M. asteroides
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| Machaeranthera asteroides (Torr.) Greene
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Machaeranthera asteroides, the fall tansyaster,[2] is a North American species of plants in the sunflower family. It is native to the southwestern United States (California , Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah) and northern Mexico (Chihuahua, Sonora, Baja California).[3]
Machaeranthera asteroides is a biennial or perennial herb with a woody taproot. It often grows in a clump of several stems. Ray florets in the flower heads are white or purple, and female. Disc florets are yellow and bisexual.[4][5]
- Machaeranthera asteroides var. asteroides - California , Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Chihuahua, Sonora
- Machaeranthera asteroides var. lagunensis (D.D.Keck) B.L.Turner Baja California; Laguna Mountains in San Diego County in California
- Machaeranthera asteroides var. glandulosa B.L.Turner - Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Plant List, Machaeranthera asteroides (Torr.) Greene
- ↑ "Machaeranthera asteroides". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=MAAS2. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
- ↑ Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Flora of North America, Dieteria asteroides Torrey in W. H. Emory, Not. Milit. Reconn. 141. 1848.
- ↑ Wooton, Elmer Ottis & Standley, Paul Carpenter 1913. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 16(4): 189 as Machaeranthera simplex
External links
- photo of herbarium specimen at Missouri Botanical Garden, collected in New Mexico, isotype of Machaeranthera simplex
- photo of herbarium specimen at Missouri Botanical Garden, isolectotype of Machaeranthera canescens var. latifolia A. Gray (syn of Machaeranthera asteroides var. asteroides
Wikidata ☰ Q15553821 entry
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