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 | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Genus: | Gochnatia |
| Species: | G. hypoleuca |
| Binomial name | |
| Gochnatia hypoleuca | |
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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]
References
- Tropicos, Gochnatia hypoleuca (DC.) A. Gray
- Flora of North America, Gochnatia hypoleuca (de Candolle) A. Gray, 1883. Shrubby bullseye, chomonque
- Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map
- SEINet, Southwestern Biodiversity, Arizona chapter, Gochnatia hypoleuca A.Gray description, distribution map, photos of herbarium specimens
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