Heterotheca sessiliflora

Heterotheca sessiliflora
ssp. bolanderi

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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Tribe: Astereae
Genus: Heterotheca
Species: H. sessiliflora
Binomial name
Heterotheca sessiliflora
(Nutt.) Shinners 1951
Synonyms[1]

Heterotheca sessiliflora is a species of flowering plant in the daisy family known by the common name sessileflower false goldenaster. It is native to California, Sonora,and Baja California.[2][3][4]


Heterotheca sessiliflora grows in many types of habitats. It is a perennial herb which is quite variable in appearance, particularly across its four subspecies. It may be a small clumping or mat-forming plant or grow tall stems to heights exceeding a meter. It is coated in small bristles or long woolly hairs and it is glandular, particularly around the inflorescence. The flower head contains long yellowish disc florets and the edge is fringed with yellow ray florets.[5]

Subspecies + varieties[1][2]

References

  1. 1 2 The Plant List, Heterotheca sessiliflora (Nutt.) Shinners
  2. 1 2 Calflora taxon report, University of California, Heterotheca sessiliflora (Nutt.) Shinn., Golden Aster, false goldenaster, sessileflower false goldenaster
  3. 1 2 Tropicos, Haplopappus thiniicola Rzed. & E. Ezcurra
  4. ↑ Tropicos, specimen listing for Heterotheca sessiliflora (Nutt.) Shinners
  5. ↑ Flora of North America, Heterotheca sessiliflora (Nuttall) Shinners, 1951. Sessileflower goldenaster
  6. ↑ Rzedowski, Jerzy & Ezcurra, Exequiel. 1986. Ciencia Interamericana 26(1–2): 16

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