Stylocline psilocarphoides
Stylocline psilocarphoides, White Mountains, elevation 1705 m (5590 ft)
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Stylocline
Species:
S. psilocarphoides
Binomial name
Stylocline psilocarphoides

Stylocline psilocarphoides is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common names baretwig neststraw[1] 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. It is a small annual herb growing at ground level with stems measuring 1 to 18 centimeters in length. It is woolly or felt-like in texture with a coating of white hairs. The pointed leaves are up to 1.8 centimeters long and alternately arranged. The inflorescence bears oval flower heads no more than half a centimeter in diameter. The head generally has no phyllaries, or has small ones that fall away early. It is a hardened ball of several woolly white flowers.

References

  1. ↑ USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Stylocline pislocarphoides". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 4 December 2015.


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