Bigelowia

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Bigelowia
Bigelowia nuttallii.jpg
Bigelowia nuttallii
Black Warrior River, Blount County, Alabama
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Subfamily: Asteroideae
Tribe: Astereae
Subtribe: Gutiereziinae
Genus: Bigelowia
DC. 1836, not Raf. 1817
Synonyms [1]
  • Bigelovia spelling variation
  • AcicliniumTorr. & A.Gray
  • ChondrophoraRaf. ex Porter & Britton
  • ChondrophoraRaf.

Bigelowia is a genus of North American flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, native to the United States. [2] [3] [4]

Bigelowia plants are subshrubs, often forming clumps. They have very small but numerous displays of small yellow flower heads with disc florets but no ray florets. [5] [6] [7]

Species [8]

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References

  1. Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist
  2. Candolle, Augustin Pyramus de. 1836. Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis, sive, Enumeratio contracta ordinum generum specierumque plantarum huc usque cognitarium, juxta methodi naturalis, normas digesta 5: 329–330
  3. Tropicos, Bigelowia DC.
  4. UniProt. "Tribe Astereae" . Retrieved 2009-07-18.
  5. Flora of North America, Rayless-goldenrod, Bigelowia de Candolle
  6. Loran C. Anderson. Studies on Bigelowia (Astereae, Compositae). I. Morphology and Taxonomy. Sida. 1970. 3:45–465.
  7. Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution maps
  8. The Plant List search for Bigelowia