Gochnatia hypoleuca

Gochnatia hypoleuca, the shrubby bullseye,[2] is a North American species of plants in the family Asteraceae. It is native to northern Mexico (from Coahuila east to Tamaulipas and south as far as Oaxaca) and just north of the Río Grande in Texas.[3][2][4]

Gochnatia hypoleuca
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Gochnatia
Species:
G. hypoleuca
Binomial name
Gochnatia hypoleuca
(DC.) A.Gray 1883
Synonyms[1]
  • Moquinia hypoleuca DC. 1838

Gochnatia hypoleuca is a shrub, stems and undersides of the leaves covered with thick, white woolly hairs. Flower heads are in tight arrays, each head with numerous whitish flowers with lobed corollas. The plant grows in gravel and caliche soils in desert scrub vegetation.[2]

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