Anisocarpus scabridus | |
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Anisocarpus scabridus (Eastw.) B.G.Baldwin | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Asterales |
Family: | Asteraceae |
Genus: | Anisocarpus |
Species: | A. scabridus |
Binomial name | |
Anisocarpus scabridus (Eastw.) B.G.Baldwin | |
Synonyms [2] | |
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Anisocarpus scabridus, the leafy raillardiopsis, [3] is a North American species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.
It is found only in northwestern California, primarily in scree slopes at relatively high elevations in the Coast Ranges of Humboldt, Mendocino, Trinity, Lake, Tehama, and Colusa Counties. There are also a few isolated populations in the southern Cascades of northern Shasta County. [4] [5]
Anisocarpus scabridus is a small plant rarely more than 2 inches (5 cm) high. It has blue-green leaves and flower heads containing both ray florets and disc florets. [6]
The plant is quite different in ecology and appearance from the only other species in the genus, A. madioides. The two were classified in different genera for many years until molecular and anatomical studies in the 1990s demonstrated their close relationship. [7]
Ageratina herbacea is a North American species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae known by the common names fragrant snakeroot and Apache snakeroot. It is native to desert regions of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. It grows in rocky slopes in conifer forests and woodlands.
Allium hickmanii is a rare species of wild onion known by the common name Hickman's onion. It is endemic to California, where it is known from Monterey, Sonoma, Kern, and San Luis Obispo Counties.
Allium howellii is a North American species of wild onion known by the common name Howell's onion. It is endemic to California.
Ericameria fasciculata is a rare species of flowering shrub in the family Asteraceae known by the common name Eastwood's goldenbush. It is endemic to northern California, where it is known from fewer than twenty locations. Many sources described it as found only in Monterey County, but the Calflora database maintained by the University of California reports additional collections from nearby Santa Cruz and Santa Clara Counties. These collections are, however, from inhabited regions and might represent either introductions or cultivated specimens.
Chaenactis suffrutescens is a species of flowering plant in the aster family known by the common name Shasta chaenactis.
Anisocarpus madioides is a North American species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name woodland madia.
Jensia yosemitana is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name Yosemite tarweed. It is endemic to California, where it has a scattered distribution across the Sierra Nevada and its foothills. Some of the populations lie inside Yosemite National Park.
Carlquistia is a rare North American genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae containing the single species Carlquistia muirii. Formerly named Raillardiopsis muirii, the plant was reexamined in the 1990s and moved to a new genus of its own, separate from similar and closely related genera, such as Madia. Common names for the species include Muir's tarplant, Muir's raillardiopsis, and Muir's raillardella.
Arnica dealbata is a species of Californian plants in the tarweed tribe within the aster family
Deinandra bacigalupii is a rare species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, known by the common names Livermore tarplant and Livermore moonshine. It is endemic to Alameda County, California, and is only found within a half-mile of the city limits of Livermore, in the eastern portion of the Livermore Valley. The plant is considered endangered under the California Endangered Species Act, and there are only four known populations; a fifth was destroyed by a landscaping business in 2014. The majority is located on city property near the Springtown neighborhood. It grows in open areas with alkali soils, in alkali meadows and on the edges of alkali sinks, and appears to be restricted to a soil called Solano fine sandy loam. This plant was previously included within Deinandra increscens ssp. increscens, but it was separated and elevated to species level in 1999.
Deinandra conjugens is a rare species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common names Otay tarplant and Otay tarweed. It is native to a small section of far northern Baja California in Mexico, its range extending north into San Diego County, California, in the United States. One isolated population has been reported from the hills east of Cayucos in San Luis Obispo County.
Deinandra minthornii — — is a rare California species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name Santa Susana tarplant, or Santa Susana tarweed. It is listed as a rare species by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and on the California Native Plant Society Inventory of Rare and Endangered Plants of California.
Deinandra mohavensis, commonly known as Mojave tarplant or Mojave tarweed, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae.
Deiandra arida, also called Red Rock tarplant, is a rare California annual plant in the family Asteraceae.
Anisocarpus is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Madieae within the family Asteraceae.
Balsamorhiza lanata, with the common name lanate balsamroot, is a species of plant in the tribe Heliantheae of the family Asteraceae native to California.
Centromadia pungens, the common spikeweed or common tarweed, is a species of North American plants in the tribe Madieae within the family Asteraceae. It is native to northern Baja California and the western United States. The plant is considered a noxious weed in parts of the Pacific Northwest.
Centromadia parryi, the pappose tarweed, is a species of plant in the tribe Madieae within the family Asteraceae. It is found in North America where it is native to California and, northern Baja California.
Deinandra kelloggii, Kellogg's spikeweed or Kellogg's tarweed, is a North American species of plant in the tribe Madieae within the family Asteraceae. It is native to Baja California, southern and central California, and Arizona.
Deinandra halliana, or Hall's tarplant, is a California species of plants in the tribe Madieae within the family Asteraceae. It has been found in the Coast Ranges of Central California, in Monterey, Fresno, San Benito, and San Luis Obispo Counties.