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Bahia (plant)
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Bahia is a small genus
of about 12 species of perennial
flowering plant
s in the family Asteraceae
. The common name is also Bahia. It is named in honor of the spanish botanist Juan Francisco Bahí (1775 - 1841).
The genus has a disjunct distribution in the southwestern United States
and Chile
, and is found in dry areas.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of about 12 species of perennial
Perennial plant
A perennial plant or simply perennial is a plant that lives for more than two years. The term is often used to differentiate a plant from shorter lived annuals and biennials. The term is sometimes misused by commercial gardeners or horticulturalists to describe only herbaceous perennials...
flowering plant
Flowering plant
The flowering plants , also known as Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants. Angiosperms are seed-producing plants like the gymnosperms and can be distinguished from the gymnosperms by a series of synapomorphies...
s in the family Asteraceae
Asteraceae
The Asteraceae or Compositae , is an exceedingly large and widespread family of vascular plants. The group has more than 22,750 currently accepted species, spread across 1620 genera and 12 subfamilies...
. The common name is also Bahia. It is named in honor of the spanish botanist Juan Francisco Bahí (1775 - 1841).
The genus has a disjunct distribution in the southwestern United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
and Chile
Chile
Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...
, and is found in dry areas.
Selected species
- Bahia absinthifolia – Hairyseed Bahia
- Bahia absinthifolia var. absinthifolia – Hairyseed Bahia
- Bahia absinthifolia var. dealbata – Dealbata's Bahia
- Bahia ambrosioidesBahia ambrosioidesBahia ambrosioides is a species of flowering plant....
- Bahia bigelovii – Bigelow's Bahia
- Bahia biternata – Slim-lobe Bahia
- Bahia dissectaBahia dissectaBahia dissecta is a species of flowering plant in the daisy family known by the common names bahia and yellow ragweed. It is native to the southwestern United States as far north as Wyoming, as well as northern Mexico. It can be found in several habitat types, from dry mountain slopes to roadsides...
– Ragleaf Bahia, Ragged-leaf Bahia - Bahia lanata
- Bahia pedata – Blunt-scale Bahia
- Bahia schaffneri – Schaffner's Bahia
- Bahia trolliifoliaBahia trolliifoliaBahia trolliifolia is a species of ornamental plant....
- Bahia xylopoda