Atrichoseris
| Gravel ghosts tobacco weed parachute plant | |
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| Atrichoseris platyphylla at Lake Mead | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Tribe: | Cichorieae |
| Genus: | Atrichoseris |
| Species: | A. platyphylla |
| Binomial name | |
| Atrichoseris platyphylla A. Gray | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Atrichoseris is a genus of plants in the dandelion family.[2][1] It contains only one known species, Atrichoseris platyphylla, known by the common names tobacco weed, parachute plant, and gravel ghost.[3]
Atrichoseris platyphylla is native to the deserts of the southwestern United States (southern California, Arizona, Nevada and the southwestern corner of Utah) and northwestern Mexico (Sonora, Baja California). It produces a low basal rosette of rounded leaves patterned with gray-green and purple patches at ground level. It sends up a weedy-looking thin branching stem topped with a number of attractive, fragrant white or pink-tinged flowers, the layered ray florets rectangular and toothed.[4][5]
Gravel ghosts in Death Valley National Park, March 2005.
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