Dieteria canescens

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Dieteria canescens
Dieteria canescens var canescens 2.jpg
Status TNC G5.svg
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Dieteria
Species:
D. canescens
Binomial name
Dieteria canescens
Synonyms [1]
Synonymy
  • Aster biennisNutt.
  • Aster canescensPursh
  • Aster glossophyllusPiper
  • Aster leiodesS.F.Blake
  • Dieteria divaricataNutt.
  • Dieteria pulverulentaNutt.
  • Dieteria viscosaNutt.
  • Machaeranthera angustifoliaRydb.
  • Machaeranthera divaricata(Nutt.) Greene
  • Machaeranthera glabellaGreene ex Rydb.
  • Machaeranthera laetevirensGreene
  • Machaeranthera latifoliaA.Nelson
  • Machaeranthera leptophyllaRydb.
  • Machaeranthera linearisRydb. 1900, not Greene 1897
  • Machaeranthera montanaGreene
  • Machaeranthera paniculataA.Nelson
  • Machaeranthera pinosaElmer
  • Machaeranthera pulverulenta(Nutt.) Greene
  • Machaeranthera ramosaA.Nelson
  • Machaeranthera selbyiRydb.
  • Machaeranthera spinulosa(Greene) Cory
  • Machaeranthera subalpinaGreene
  • Machaeranthera superbaA.Nelson
  • Machaeranthera viscosa(Nutt.) Greene
  • Machaeranthera angustifoliaWooton & Standl. 1913, not Rydb. 1910, syn of var. ambigua
  • Machaeranthera oxylepisGreene, syn of var. ambigua
  • Machaeranthera scopariaGreene, syn of var. ambigua
  • Machaeranthera cichoriacea, syn of var. aristata
  • Machaeranthera rigidaGreene, syn of var. aristata
  • Aster linearis(Greene) Cory, syn of var. glabra
  • Machaeranthera linearisGreene, syn of var. glabra
  • Aster attenuatus(Howell) Frye & Rigg, syn of var. incana
  • Aster attenuatus(Howell) M.Peck, syn of var. incana
  • Dieteria incana(Lindl.) Torr. & A.Gray, syn of var. incana
  • Diplopappus incanusLindl., syn of var. incana
  • Machaeranthera attenuataHowell, syn of var. incana
  • Machaeranthera incana(Lindl.) Greene, syn of var. leucanthemifolia
  • Aster leucanthemifoliusGreene, syn of var. leucanthemifolia
  • Machaeranthera hiemalisA.Nelson, syn of var. leucanthemifolia
  • Machaeranthera leucanthemifolia(Greene) Greene, syn of var. leucanthemifolia
  • Dieteria sessilifloraNutt., syn of var. sessiliflora
  • Machaeranthera magnaA.Nelson, syn of var. sessiliflora
  • Machaeranthera sessiliflora(Nutt.) Greene, syn of var. sessiliflora
  • Aster eradiatus(A.Gray) Frye & Rigg, syn of var. shastensis
  • Aster inornatusGreene Synonym, syn of var. shastensis
  • Aster shastensis(A.Gray) A.Gray, syn of var. shastensis
  • Machaeranthera eradiata(A.Gray) Howell, syn of var. shastensis
  • Machaeranthera inopsA.Nelson & J.F.Macbr., syn of var. shastensis
  • Machaeranthera inornata(Greene) Greene, syn of var. shastensis
  • Machaeranthera shastensisA.Gray, syn of var. shastensis

Dieteria canascens (formerly Machaeranthera canescens) [2] is an annual plant or short lived perennial plant in the family Asteraceae, known by the common names hoary tansyaster and hoary-aster. [3]

Contents

"Canescens" means "gray-hairy". [4]

Range and habitat

Dieteria canascens is native to western and central North America, from the Pacific Coast to the Western part of the Great Plains, from British Columbia south to California, Sonora, and Chihuahua, east to Saskatchewan, the Dakotas, and Oklahoma, with a few isolated populations in Iowa and Minnesota. [5]

Growth pattern

Dieteria canascens is a woolly-haired, glandular annual or perennial herb with one or more branching stems sometimes exceeding 100 cm (39 in) in height. [6]

Leaves and stems

The linear to oblong leaves may reach 10 centimetres (3.9 inches) long near the base of the stems, their edges usually serrated or toothed.

The stems are glandular with short hairs. [3] [6]

Flowers and fruits

The inflorescence bears one or more flower heads lined with several layers of pointed, curling or curving phyllaries. The head has a center of many yellow disc florets and a fringe of blue or purple ray florets each 1 to 2 centimeters long. The fruit is an achene around 3 millimeters in length tipped with a pappus of long hairs. [6]

A number of insects can often be found in the flowers. [3]

Uses

The Zuni people take an infusion the whole plant of subspecies canescens, variety canescens and rub it on the abdomen as an emetic. [7]

Varieties [1] [6]

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References

  1. 1 2 The Plant List, Dieteria canescens (Pursh) Nutt.
  2. Mojave Desert Wildflowers, Pam MacKay, 2nd Ed., p 314
  3. 1 2 3 Mojave Desert Wildflowers, Pam MacKay, 2nd Ed., p 39
  4. Great Basin Wildflowers, Laird R. Blackwell, 2006, p. 26
  5. Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map
  6. 1 2 3 4 Flora of North America, Dieteria canescens
  7. Stevenson, Matilda Coxe 1915 Ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians. SI-BAE Annual Report #30 (p. 56)