Scabrethia

Scabrethia is a monotypic genus of North American flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.[2][3]

Scabrethia
Scabrethia scabra

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Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
(unranked):
Angiosperms
(unranked):
Eudicots
(unranked):
Asterids
Order:
Asterales
Family:
Asteraceae
Tribe:
Heliantheae[1]
Genus:
Scabrethia

Binomial name
Scabrethia scabra
Synonyms[1]
  • Wyethia scabra Hook.

There is only one recognized species, Scabrethia scabra,[4] the badlands mule-ears,[5] which is native to the western United States (Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico).[1][6]

Subspecies[1]
  1. Scabrethia scabra subsp. scabra - (Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Arizona
  2. Scabrethia scabra subsp. attenuata (W.A.Weber) W.A.Weber - Utah, Arizona, New Mexico
  3. Scabrethia scabra subsp. canescens (W.A.Weber) W.A.Weber - Colorado, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico

The genus was circumscribed by William Alfred Weber in Phytologia vol.85 (1) on page 20 in 1998 (published in 1999).[4]

The genus name of Scabrethia is in honour of Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth (1802–1856), who was an American businessman and explorer. Scabrous (meaning rough to the touch) and also Wyethia.[7]

References
  1. Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist
  2. Weber, William Alfred. 1998. Phytologia 85(1): 20–21
  3. Tropicos, Scabrethia W.A. Weber
  4. "Scabrethia W.A.Weber | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 7 December 2022.
  5. USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Scabrethia scabra". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 6 November 2015.
  6. Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution map
  7. Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. Retrieved January 27, 2022.


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