Oreoxis

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Oreoxis
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Oreoxis humilis
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Apiales
Family: Apiaceae
Tribe: Selineae
Genus: Oreoxis
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Species [1]

Oreoxis, also known as alpine parsley, is a genus of flowering plants in the carrot family. It includes two species native to subalpine regions of Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah in the west-central United States.

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Taxonomy

Oreoxis was given its scientific name in 1830 by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque with one species, Oreoxis humilis. [1] [2] The second accepted species was scientifically described and named Oreoxis bakeri in 1900 by John Merle Coulter and Joseph Nelson Rose in 1900. [3]

After studying the genus Cymopterus Marcus E. Jones proposed merging Orexis as a section in 1908. [4] However, other botanists such as Mildred E. Mathias retained it as an accepted genus in 1930. [5] The genus was also retained by Stanley Larson Welsh and his coauthors in their book Utah Flora published in 1987. [6] However, Arthur Cronquist and his collaborators on the Intermountain Flora Volume Three, Part A again proposed that it be included in Cymopterus in 1997. [7] Similarly Kenneth D. Heil and his coauthors choose to publish with Oreoxis listed as a synonym in 2013. [8] As of 2025Oreoxis is considered an accepted genus according to Plants of the World Online and the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service plants database. [1] [9]

There are three other species previously placed in the genus:

Names

Oreoxis is known by the common name of alpine parsley and the genus name is also used as common name. [13] [9]

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  • Cronquist, Arthur; Holmgren, Noel H.; Holmgren, Patricia K. (1997). Intermountain Flora : Vascular Plants of the Intermountain West, U.S.A. . Vol. Three, Part A. Subclass Rosidae (except Fabales). New York: New York Botanical Garden. ISBN   978-0-89327-374-3. OCLC   503654484 . Retrieved 12 October 2025.
  • Duft, Joseph F.; Moseley, Robert K. (1989). Alpine Wildflowers of the Rocky Mountains . Missoula, Montana: Mountain Press. ISBN   978-0-87842-238-8. OCLC   19325552 . Retrieved 12 October 2025.
  • Heil, Kenneth D.; O'Kane, Steve L. Jr.; Reeves, Linda Mary; Clifford, Arnold (2013). Flora of the Four Corners Region: Vascular Plants of the San Juan River Drainage, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah (First ed.). St. Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden. ISBN   978-1-930723-84-9. ISSN   0161-1542. LCCN   2012949654. OCLC   859541992 . Retrieved 12 October 2025.
  • Welsh, Stanley L.; Atwood, N. Duane; Goodrich, Sherel; Higgins, Larry C. (1987). A Utah Flora . Great Basin Naturalist Memoirs, No. 9 (First ed.). Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University. JSTOR   23377658. OCLC   9986953694 . Retrieved 12 October 2025.
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