Stylocline intertexta
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Kingdom: | Plantae
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(unranked): | Angiosperms
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Tribe: | Inuleae
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Species: | S. intertexta
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Stylocline intertexta |
Stylocline intertexta is a species of flowering plant in the aster family known by the common names Morefield's neststraw[1] and Mojave neststraw. It is native to the Mojave and Sonoran Deserts of California, Nevada, Utah, and Arizona, where it grows in rocky, sandy desert soils. It likely evolved as a hybrid between woollyhead neststraw (Stylocline micropoides) and baretwig neststraw (S. psilocarphoides); it is a mix of their morphological traits and it occurs alongside both of them.[2] It reproduces itself, producing fertile offspring, and it meets other criteria for any other definition of a species, so it was described to science as such in 1992.[3] It is a small annual herb growing at ground level and reaching just a few centimeters in length. It is usually coated in white hairs, often woolly. The small, pointed leaves are oval to lance-shaped and measure up to 1.5 centimeters long. The inflorescence bears spherical flower heads each a few millimeters in diameter. The head has no phyllaries, just a ball of tiny woolly white flowers.
References[]
- ^ "Stylocline intertexta". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
- ^ Flora of North America
- ^ Morefield, J. D. (1992). Three new species of Stylocline (Asteraceae:Inuleae) from California and the Mojave Desert. Madroño 39:114-130.
External links[]
- Calflora Database: Stylocline intertexta (Morefield's neststraw, Tangled nest straw)
- Jepson Manual eFlora (TJM2) treatment
- UC CalPhotos gallery
- Inuleae
- Flora of the California desert regions
- Flora of the Sonoran Deserts
- Flora of Arizona
- Flora of Utah
- Endemic flora of the United States
- Natural history of the Mojave Desert
- Natural history of the Colorado Desert
- Plants described in 1992
- Asteroideae stubs