Gochnatia hypoleuca
| Gochnatia hypoleuca | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Genus: | Gochnatia |
| Species: | G. hypoleuca |
| Binomial name | |
| Gochnatia hypoleuca (DC.) A.Gray 1883 | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Gochnatia hypoleuca common name Shrubby bullseye,[2] is a North American species of plants in the sunflower family. 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 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
- 1 2 3 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
External links
- Aggie Horticulture, Tesxas A&M University, Chomonque, Ocote Gochnatia hypoleuca Photo, description, ecological information
- NaturaLista, Conabio, ocotillo (Gochnatia hypoleuca) photos
- Irekani, photo of herbarium specimen at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, collected in Nuevo León in 1980
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