Gundlachia triantha

Gundlachia triantha, the TransPecos goldenshrub[3] or Trans-Pecos desert goldenrod,[4] is a North American species of plants in the sunflower family. It is native to northern Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Nuevo León), with the range extending just over the Río Grande into western Texas in and near Big Bend National Park.[5][6]

Gundlachia triantha
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Gundlachia
Species:
G. triantha
Binomial name
Gundlachia triantha
(S.F.Blake) Urbatsch & R.P.Roberts 2004
Synonyms[1][2]
  • Haplopappus trianthus S.F.Blake
  • Aplopappus trianthus S.F.Blake
  • Ericameria triantha (S.F.Blake) Shinners
  • Xylothamia triantha (S.F.Blake) G.L. Nesom

Gundlachia triantha is a shrub up to 200 cm (6+1⁄2 ft) tall. The plant produces flower heads in clumps of 3–5 at the ends of small branches. Each head contains 3–7 disc flowers but no ray flowers.[6][3][7]

References
  1. Tropicos, Gundlachia triantha (S.F. Blake) Urbatsch & R.P. Roberts
  2. Tropicos, Haplopappus trianthus S.F. Blake
  3. Flora of North America, Gundlachia triantha (S. F. Blake) Urbatsch & R. P. Roberts, 2004.
  4. USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Xylothamia grandiflora". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 18 July 2015.
  5. Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map
  6. Nesom, Guy L. 1990. Sida 14(1): 113
  7. Blake, Sydney Fay. 1938. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 28(11): 485–486, Aplopappus trianthus descriptions in English and Latin, commentary in English


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