Gundlachia triantha
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| Species: | G. triantha
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Gundlachia triantha, the TransPecos goldenshrub[3] or Trans-Pecos desert goldenrod,[4] is a North American species of plants in the sunflower family. It is native to northern Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Nuevo León), with the range extending just over the Río Grande into western Texas in and near Big Bend National Park.[5][6]
Gundlachia triantha is a shrub up to 200 cm (80 inches or 6 2/3 feet) tall. The plant produces flower heads in clumps of 3-5 at the ends of small branches. Each had contains 3-7 disc flowers but no ray flowers.[6][3][7]
References
- ^ Tropicos, Gundlachia triantha (S.F. Blake) Urbatsch & R.P. Roberts
- ^ Tropicos, Haplopappus trianthus S.F. Blake
- ^ a b Flora of North America, Gundlachia triantha (S. F. Blake) Urbatsch & R. P. Roberts, 2004.
- ^ USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Xylothamia grandiflora". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 18 July 2015.
- ^ Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map
- ^ a b Nesom, Guy L. 1990. Sida 14(1): 113
- ^ Blake, Sydney Fay. 1938. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 28(11): 485–486, Aplopappus trianthus descriptions in English and Latin, commentary in English
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