Biology:Venegasia
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Short description: Genus of flowering plants
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Subfamily: | Asteroideae |
| Tribe: | Madieae |
| Subtribe: | Venegasiinae B.G.Baldwin |
| Genus: | Venegasia DC. |
| Species: | V. carpesioides
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| Binomial name | |
| Venegasia carpesioides DC.
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Venegasia is a genus of North American plants in the tribe Madieae within the family Asteraceae.[4][1][5][6]
Venegasia carpesioides is the only known species in the genus. It is shrubby bush growing to 1.8 m tall and prefers locations in moist canyons in southern California ,[7] and in Baja California. It is commonly known as the canyon sunflower.[8][9]
Venegasia was named after the Mexican historian Miguel Venegas, 1680–1764.[10]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Tropicos, Venegasia DC.
- ↑ Blake, Sydney Fay. 1926. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 23(5): 1599
- ↑ Rydberg, Per Axel. 1914. North American Flora 34: 5
- ↑ Candolle, Augustin Pyramus de. 1838. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 6: 43 in Latin
- ↑ Flora of North America, Vol. 21 Page 385 Venegasia de Candolle
- ↑ Turner, B. L. and D. Zippin. 1992. Taxonomic study of Venegasia (Asteraceae: Helenieae). Sida 15: 223–229
- ↑ Calflora, University of California @ Berkeley, Canyon sunflower
- ↑ Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist
- ↑ Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution map
- ↑ CalFlora Botanical Names
External links
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