Euthamia leptocephala
| Euthamia leptocephala | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Tribe: | Astereae |
| Genus: | Euthamia |
| Binomial name | |
| Euthamia leptocephala (Torr. & A.Gray) Greene ex Porter & Britton | |
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Euthamia leptocephala (bushy goldentop[3] or Mississippi Valley goldentop) is a North American species of plants in the daisy family. It is native to the south-central United States, in the lower Mississippi Valley and the Coastal Plain of the Gulf of Mexico, from Texas to west-central Georgia and north as far as southern Illinois.
Description
Euthamia leptocephala is a perennial herb or subshrub up to 100 cm (40 inches) tall. Leaves are alternate, simple, long and narrow, up to 8 cm (3.2 inches) long. One plant can produce many small, yellow flower heads flat-topped arrays. Each head has 7-14 ray florets surrounding 3-6 disc florets.[4]
References
- ↑ The Plant List, Euthamia leptocephala (Torr. & A.Gray) Greene ex Porter & Britton
- ↑ photo of herbarium specimen at Missouri Botanical Garden, collected in Arkansas in 1882, type of Euthamia chrysothamnoides, annotated as Euthamia leptocephala
- ↑ "Euthamia leptocephala". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
- ↑ Flora of North America, Euthamia leptocephala (Torrey & A. Gray) Greene ex Porter & Britton, 1894. Mississippi Valley goldentop
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