Lagophylla
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| Lagophylla ramosissima | |
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| Genus: | Lagophylla |
Lagophylla is a small genus of flowering plants in the sunflower family.[2][3] The genus is native to western North America, especially California.
These are annual plants with small yellow flowers which open during the night. The leaves are covered with dense hairs, hence the common name, hareleaf, and the scientific name, Lagophylla, which is derived from the Greek terms lagos (λαγώς; 'hare') and phyllon (φύλλον; 'leaf').[4][5] Thomas Nuttall describes the leaves with their "abundant, soft, white, silky hairs" as resembling the foot of a hare, and says he named the genus "from the leaves being clad with long, soft hairs."[2]
- Lagophylla diabolensis - California (Diablo Range)
- Lagophylla dichotoma - forked hareleaf - California (San Benito, Fresno, + Monterey Cos)
- Lagophylla glandulosa - glandular hareleaf - California
- Lagophylla minor - lesser hareleaf - northern California
- Lagophylla ramosissima - branched hareleaf - from San Diego County to Montana + Washington
References
- ^ a b Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist Archived 2014-11-06 at archive.today
- ^ a b Nuttall, Thomas. 1841. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, new series 7: 390–391 in English
- ^ Tropicos, Lagophylla Nutt.
- ^ Flora of North America, 21 Page 260 Lagophylla Nuttall
- ^ Liddell, H.G. & Scott, R. (1940). A Greek-English Lexicon. Revised and augmented throughout by Sir Henry Stuart Jones with the assistance of Roderick McKenzie.Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- ^ The Plant List search for Lagophylla
- ^ Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution maps
- ^ Lagophylla diabolensis B.G. Baldwin, Jepson eFlora
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