Stephanomeria tenuifolia | |
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Scientific classification
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Asterales |
Family: | Asteraceae |
Genus: | Stephanomeria |
Species: | S. tenuifolia
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Binomial name | |
Stephanomeria tenuifolia (Raf.) H.M.Hall
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Stephanomeria tenuifolia, the narrow-leaved wire-lettuce or narrow leaved stephanomeria, is a perennial plant in the family Asteraceae that grows in the Great Basin of the western United States. [1]: 60 It has five ray flowers that give it the appearance of being petals of a single flower of a plant in another plant family. [1]: 60
It grows with much branching from 1⁄2 to 2 feet (0.15 to 0.61 m). [1]: 60
Leaves are threadlike.
The inflorescence is a head with 5 square-tipped, petal-like ray flowers and sepal-like phyllaries. [1]: 60
Fruits are seeds attached to parachute-like pappi. [1]: 60
Narrow leaved stephanomeria grows in the plains and dry slopes in sagebrush steppe, mixed conifer, and mountain shrub communities in the Great Basin. [1]: 60 In California it can be found in sagebrush scrub, Northern juniper woodland, yellow pine forest, red fir forest, lodgepole forest, and subalpine forest plant communities. [2]
Stephanomeria tenuifolia | |
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Scientific classification
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Asterales |
Family: | Asteraceae |
Genus: | Stephanomeria |
Species: | S. tenuifolia
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Binomial name | |
Stephanomeria tenuifolia (Raf.) H.M.Hall
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Stephanomeria tenuifolia, the narrow-leaved wire-lettuce or narrow leaved stephanomeria, is a perennial plant in the family Asteraceae that grows in the Great Basin of the western United States. [1]: 60 It has five ray flowers that give it the appearance of being petals of a single flower of a plant in another plant family. [1]: 60
It grows with much branching from 1⁄2 to 2 feet (0.15 to 0.61 m). [1]: 60
Leaves are threadlike.
The inflorescence is a head with 5 square-tipped, petal-like ray flowers and sepal-like phyllaries. [1]: 60
Fruits are seeds attached to parachute-like pappi. [1]: 60
Narrow leaved stephanomeria grows in the plains and dry slopes in sagebrush steppe, mixed conifer, and mountain shrub communities in the Great Basin. [1]: 60 In California it can be found in sagebrush scrub, Northern juniper woodland, yellow pine forest, red fir forest, lodgepole forest, and subalpine forest plant communities. [2]