Thymophylla
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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 daisy family
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...
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Species include:
- Thymophylla acerosa (DC.) Strother
- Thymophylla aurantiaca (Brandegee) Rydb.
- Thymophylla aurea (A.Gray)
- Thymophylla concinna (A.Gray) Strother
- Thymophylla gentryi (M.C.Johnst.) Strother
- Thymophylla gypsophila (B.L.Turner) Strother
- Thymophylla micropoides (DC.) Strother
- Thymophylla mutica (M.C.Johnst.) Strother
- Thymophylla pentachaetaThymophylla pentachaetaThymophylla pentachaeta, also known as golden dyssodia or dogweed, is a perennial or subshrub in the Asteraceae family. The species is native to the southwestern United States and MexicoFour varieties are recognised:...
(DC.) Small - Thymophylla setifolia Lag.
- Thymophylla tenuifolia (Cass.) Rydb.
- Thymophylla tenuilobaThymophylla tenuilobaThymophylla tenuiloba, also known as the Dahlberg daisy, small bristleleaf pricklyleaf, golden fleece, or shooting star is a bushy, multi-branched flowering annual from the family Asteraceae. Native to south central Texas and northern Mexico, it produces a large number of small, yellow flowers and...
(DC.) Small - Thymophylla tephroleucaThymophylla tephroleucaThymophylla tephroleuca is a rare species of flowering plant known by the common names ashy dogweed and ashy pricklyleaf. It is endemic to Texas in the United States, where it occurs in two counties near the Mexican border. It became rare due to the destruction and degradation of its habitat...
(S.F.Blake) Strother