Viguiera
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Viguiera is a genus of flowering plant
s in the sunflower
family, Asteraceae
. It contains around 150 species, which are commonly known as goldeneye and native to the New World. These are herbs
to bushy shrub
s and they bear yellow or orange daisylike flowers.
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 sunflower
Sunflower
Sunflower is an annual plant native to the Americas. It possesses a large inflorescence . The sunflower got its name from its huge, fiery blooms, whose shape and image is often used to depict the sun. The sunflower has a rough, hairy stem, broad, coarsely toothed, rough leaves and circular heads...
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...
. It contains around 150 species, which are commonly known as goldeneye and native to the New World. These are herbs
Herbaceous plant
A herbaceous plant is a plant that has leaves and stems that die down at the end of the growing season to the soil level. They have no persistent woody stem above ground...
to bushy shrub
Shrub
A shrub or bush is distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and shorter height, usually under 5–6 m tall. A large number of plants may become either shrubs or trees, depending on the growing conditions they experience...
s and they bear yellow or orange daisylike flowers.
Selected species
- Viguiera australis S.F.Blake
- Viguiera cordifolia A.GrayAsa Gray-References:*Asa Gray. Dictionary of American Biography. American Council of Learned Societies, 1928–1936.*Asa Gray. Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2nd ed. 17 Vols. Gale Research, 1998.*Asa Gray. Plant Sciences. 4 vols. Macmillan Reference USA, 2001....
– Heartleaf Goldeneye - Viguiera deltoidea A.Gray – Triangle Goldeneye
- Viguiera dentata (Cav.) Spreng. – Sunflower Goldeneye, Toothleaf Goldeneye
- Viguiera mediaViguiera mediaViguiera media is a species of flowering plant in the Asteraceae family.It is found only in Ecuador.Its natural habitat is saline lakes.It is threatened by habitat loss.-Source:* Montúfar, R. & Pitman, N. 2003. . Downloaded on 20 July 2007....
S.F.Blake - Viguiera nudicaulis Baker
- Viguiera paneroi B.L.Turner
- Viguiera pazensis Rusby
- Viguiera phenax S.F.Blake – Field Goldeneye
- Viguiera procumbens (Pers.) S.F.Blake
- Viguiera sodiroiViguiera sodiroiViguiera sodiroi is a species of flowering plant in the Asteraceae family.It is found only in Ecuador.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes.It is threatened by habitat loss.-Source:...
(Hieron.) S.F.Blake - Viguiera stenoloba S.F.Blake – Skeletonleaf Goldeneye
- Viguiera sylvatica Klatt
- Viguiera triloba (A.Gray) J.Olsen – Yellow Streamers
- Viguiera tuberosa (Sch.Bip.Carl Heinrich SchultzCarl Heinrich Schultz was a German physician and botanist, and a brother to Friedrich Wilhelm Schultz ....
) Benth.George BenthamGeorge Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...
& Hook.f.Joseph Dalton HookerSir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend...
ex Griseb.August GrisebachAugust Heinrich Rudolf Grisebach was a German botanist and phytogeographer. Born in Hannover on April 17, 1814, he died at Göttingen on May 9, 1879.- Biography :...
Formerly placed here
- Bahiopsis laciniataBahiopsis laciniataBahiopsis laciniata is a species of flowering plant in the aster family known by the common names San Diego County sunflower and tornleaf goldeneye. It is native to the deserts and dry mountain slopes of northwestern Mexico, its distribution extending north into San Diego County, California...
(as V. laciniata) - Bahiopsis parishii (as V. parishii)
- Bahiopsis reticulataBahiopsis reticulataBahiopsis reticulata is a species of flowering plant in the aster family known by the common names netvein goldeneye and Death Valley goldeneye. It is native to the Mojave Desert of California and Nevada, where it grows in several types of dry desert habitat...
(as V. reticulata) - Helianthus porteri (as V. porteri)
- Heliomeris multiflora var. multiflora (as V. multiflora)