Stylocline psilocarphoides
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Peck neststraw, Stylocline psilocarphoides, White Mountains, elevation 1705 m (5590 ft) | |
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Kingdom: | Plantae
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(unranked): | Angiosperms
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Tribe: | Inuleae
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Species: | S. psilocarphoides
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Binomial name | |
Stylocline psilocarphoides M.Peck
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Stylocline psilocarphoides is a species of flowering plant in the aster family known by the common names baretwig neststraw[1] and Peck's neststraw. It is native to the western United States from Idaho to southeastern California, where it grows in deserts and other dry, sandy, gravelly habitat. It is a small annual herb growing at ground level with stems measuring 1 to 18 centimeters in length. It is woolly or felt-like in texture with a coating of white hairs. The pointed leaves are up to 1.8 centimeters long and alternately arranged. The inflorescence bears oval flower heads no more than half a centimeter in diameter. The head generally has no phyllaries, or has small ones that fall away early. It is a hardened ball of several woolly white flowers.
References[]
- ^ "Stylocline pislocarphoides". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
External links[]
- Calflora: Stylocline psilocarphoides
- Jepson Manual Treatment
- Flora of North America
- UC CalPhotos gallery
- Inuleae
- Flora of the California desert regions
- Flora of the Great Basin
- Flora of Idaho
- Flora of Nevada
- Flora of Oregon
- Flora of Utah
- Endemic flora of the United States
- Natural history of the Mojave Desert
- Asteroideae stubs