Stylocline
Encyclopedia
Stylocline is a small genus of plants in the daisy family
which contains seven species known as neststraw. These are generally small plants and certain species are difficult to distinguish from each other because identifying characteristics are too small to see with the naked eye. They are annuals with woolly, hairy, or spiderwebby textures. Thin stems end in heads of disc flowers
or tubular pistillate flowers. The fruits are smooth and shiny and encapsulated within the disc heads. Neststraw is native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.
Species:
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...
which contains seven species known as neststraw. These are generally small plants and certain species are difficult to distinguish from each other because identifying characteristics are too small to see with the naked eye. They are annuals with woolly, hairy, or spiderwebby textures. Thin stems end in heads of disc flowers
Head (botany)
The capitulum is considered the most derived form of inflorescence. Flower heads found outside Asteraceae show lesser degrees of specialization....
or tubular pistillate flowers. The fruits are smooth and shiny and encapsulated within the disc heads. Neststraw is native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.
Species:
- Stylocline citroleumStylocline citroleumStylocline citroleum is a rare species of flowering plant in the aster family known by the common name oil neststraw.-Distribution:...
- oil neststraw - Stylocline gnaphaloidesStylocline gnaphaloidesStylocline gnaphaloides is a species of flowering plant in the aster family known by the common names everlasting neststraw and mountain neststraw...
- mountain neststraw - Stylocline intertextaStylocline intertextaStylocline intertexta is a species of flowering plant in the aster family known by the common names Morefield's neststraw and Mojave neststraw. It is native to the Mojave and Sonoran Deserts of California, Nevada, Utah, and Arizona, where it grows in rocky, sandy desert soils...
- Morefield's neststraw - Stylocline masoniiStylocline masoniiStylocline masonii is an uncommon species of flowering plant in the aster family known by the common name Mason's neststraw. It is endemic to California, where it is known from scattered occurrences between Monterey and Los Angeles Counties. It grows in various types of sandy habitat...
- Mason's neststraw - Stylocline micropoidesStylocline micropoidesStylocline micropoides is a species of flowering plant in the aster family known by the common names woollyhead neststraw and desert neststraw. It is native to the southwestern United States and northern areas in the northern states of Mexico, where it grows in desert habitat and other dry areas...
- woolly neststraw - Stylocline psilocarphoidesStylocline psilocarphoidesStylocline psilocarphoides is a species of flowering plant in the aster family known by the common names baretwig neststraw and Peck's neststraw. It is native to the western United States from Idaho to southeastern California, where it grows in deserts and other dry, sandy, gravelly habitat...
- baretwig neststraw - Stylocline sonorensis - Sonoran neststraw