Calycadenia
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| Calycadenia | |
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| Calycadenia villosa, herbarium specimen | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Genus: | Calycadenia DC. |
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Calycadenia is a genus of plants in the sunflower family known commonly as the western rosinweeds. These are found in western North America, where six of them are endemic to California, where they are mostly found in the Central Valley. Some species are quite rare. Western rosinweeds are small, ragged annual plants bearing numerous heads of small radiate flowers which may be white, yellow, or pinkish.
Species:
- Calycadenia fremontii - Fremont's western rosinweed
- Calycadenia hooveri - Hoover's western rosinweed
- Calycadenia micrantha - small-flowered calycadenia
- Calycadenia mollis - soft western rosinweed
- Calycadenia multiglandulosa - sticky western rosinweed
- Calycadenia oppositifolia - Butte County western rosinweed
- Calycadenia pauciflora - smallflower western rosinweed
- Calycadenia spicata - spiked western rosinweed
- Calycadenia truncata - Oregon western rosinweed
- Calycadenia villosa - dwarf western rosinweed
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