Chrysactinia mexicana

Chrysactinia mexicana
Damianita daisy
Chrysactinia mexicana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Subfamily: Asteroideae
Genus: Chrysactinia
A.Gray
Binomial name
Chrysactinia mexicana
A.Gray
Synonyms[1]

Pectis taxifolia Greene

Chrysactinia mexicana, common name Damianita daisy,[2] is a species of flowering plants in the sunflower family, native to Mexico and to the southwestern United States. It has been found in Texas, New Mexico, Aguascalientes, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Guanajuato, Hidalgo, México State, Nuevo León, Oaxaca, Puebla, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Zacatecas, Tamaulipas, and Veracruz.[3][4][5][6][7]

Chrysactinia mexicana is an evergreen subshrub up to 80 cm (32 inches) tall. It is branched, usually with one flower head per branch. Heads have bright yellow ray flowers and yellow or orange disc flowers. Achenes are distributed by the wind, much like those of the common dandelion (Taraxacum officinale).[8]

The species is sometimes cultivated as an ornamental because of its attractive flower heads.[9][10]

References

  1. ↑ The Plant List, Chrysactinia mexicana A.Gray
  2. ↑ Texas Native Plants Database, Damianita, Hierba de San Nicolas, False Damiana, Mariola, Romerillo, Garanona, San Nicolas, Calanca, Yeyepaxtle
  3. ↑ Turner, B. L. 1996. The Comps of Mexico: A systematic account of the family Asteraceae, vol. 6. Tageteae and Athemideae. Phytologia Memoirs 10: i–ii, 1–22, 43–93.
  4. ↑ García-Mendoza, A. J. & J. A. Meave. 2011. Diversidad Florística de Oaxaca: de Musgos a Angispermas 1–351. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria
  5. ↑ Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map
  6. ↑ Strother, J. L. 1977. Taxonomy of Chrysactinia, Harnackia, and Lescaillea (Compositae: Tageteae). Madroño 24: 129–139.
  7. ↑ José Luis Villaseñor y María del Rosario Redonda–Martínez. 2009. El género Chrysactinia (Asteraceae, tribu Tageteae) en México. Revista mexicana de biodiversidad 80(1) in Spanish with line drawings and distribution maps
  8. ↑ Flora of North America, Chrysactinia A. Gray
  9. ↑ Pima County Cooperative Extension, University of Arizona
  10. ↑ Dave's Garden plant files, Damianita daisy Chrysactinia mexicana

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