Stylocline psilocarphoides

Stylocline psilocarphoides
	Peck neststraw, Stylocline psilocarphoides, White Mountains, elevation 1705 m (5590 ft)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	Asterales
Family:	Asteraceae
Tribe:	Inuleae
Genus:	Stylocline
Species:	S. psilocarphoides
Binomial name
	Stylocline psilocarphoides; M.Peck

Stylocline psilocarphoides is a species of flowering plant in the aster family known by the common names baretwig neststraw^[1] and Peck's neststraw. It is native to the western United States from Idaho to southeastern California, where it grows in deserts and other dry, sandy, gravelly habitat. It is a small annual herb growing at ground level with stems measuring 1 to 18 centimeters in length. It is woolly or felt-like in texture with a coating of white hairs. The pointed leaves are up to 1.8 centimeters long and alternately arranged. The inflorescence bears oval flower heads no more than half a centimeter in diameter. The head generally has no phyllaries, or has small ones that fall away early. It is a hardened ball of several woolly white flowers.

References

^ USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Stylocline pislocarphoides". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 4 December 2015.

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[1] USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Stylocline pislocarphoides". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 4 December 2015.

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