Corispermum
| Corispermum | |
|---|---|
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| Corispermum intermedium | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Core eudicots |
| Order: | Caryophyllales |
| Family: | Amaranthaceae |
| Subfamily: | Corispermoideae |
| Genus: | Corispermum L. |
| Species | |
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60-65: See text | |
Corispermum is a genus of plants in the goosefoot family. Common names given to members of the genus involve bugseed, tickseed, and tumbleweed. In general, these are erect annual plants with flat, thin leaves and topped with inflorescences of flowers with long bracts. Bugseeds are native to North America and Eurasia, but little is known about their taxonomy and distribution.
Species include:
- Corispermum americanum - American bugseed
- Corispermum hyssopifolium - tumbleweed,<ref "name=Lyons1900">Albert Brown Lyons (1900). Plant Names, Scientific and Popular: Including in the Case of Each Plant the Correct Botanical Name in Accordance with the Reformed Nomenclature, Together with Botanical and Popular Synonyms. Detroit: Nelson, Baker & Co. p. 630. page 117</ref> tumble-weed;[1] this species forms a tumbleweed
- Corispermum ochotense - Russian bugseed
- Corispermum pallasii - Siberian bugseed
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References
- ↑ Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913). An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions: From Newfoundland to the Parallel of the Southern Boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean Westward to the 102d Meridian 2. C. Scribner's sons. page 21
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