Tetraneuris linearifolia
| Tetraneuris linearifolia | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Genus: | Tetraneuris |
| Species: | T. linearifolia |
| Binomial name | |
| Tetraneuris linearifolia (Hook.) Greene 1898 | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Tetraneuris linearifolia is a North American species of plants in the sunflower family, know by the common name fineleaf fournerved daisy.[2] It grows in the south-central United States (Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico) and northern Mexico (Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas).[3][4][5]
Tetraneuris linearifolia is an annual herb up to 50 cm (20 in) tall. It forms a branching underground caudex sometimes producing as many as 10 above-ground stems. One plant can produce as many as 80 flower heads. Each head has 9–25 yellow ray flowers surrounding 50-200 yellow disc flowers.[6][7]
References
- ↑ The Plant List, Tetraneuris scaposa (DC.) Greene
- ↑ "Tetraneuris linearifolia". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. Retrieved 9 December 2015.
- ↑ Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map
- ↑ Turner, B. L. 2013. The comps of Mexico. A systematic account of the family Asteraceae (chapter 11: tribe Helenieae). Phytologia Memoirs 16: 1–100
- ↑ SEINet Southwestern Biodiversity, Arizona chapter description, photos, distribution map
- ↑ Flora of North America, Tetraneuris linearifolia (Hooker) Greene, Pittonia. 3: 269. 1898.
- ↑ Hooker, William Jackson. 1837. Icones Plantarum 2: plate 146 + subsequent unnumbered text page full-page line drawing of Tetraneuris linearifolia (as Hymenoxys linearifolia), description in Latin, commentary and figure captions in English
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