Xylorhiza is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, known as woodyasters.[2][3] These are daisylike wildflowers usually having blue to purple or white ray flowers with yellow centers of disc florets. Woodyasters are native to western North America.[4]

Xylorhiza
Xylorhiza tortifolia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Subfamily: Asteroideae
Tribe: Astereae
Subtribe: Machaerantherinae
Genus: Xylorhiza
Nutt.
Synonyms[1]
  • Machaeranthera sect. Xylorhiza (Nutt.) Cronquist & D.D. Keck

Species[1][5]

References

edit
  1. ^ a b Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist [permanent dead link]
  2. ^ Nuttall, Thomas. 1840. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, new series 7: 297–298 in English
  3. ^ Tropicos, Xylorhiza Nutt.
  4. ^ Nesom, G.L. (2006). "Xylorhiza". In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (ed.). Flora of North America North of Mexico (FNA). Vol. 20. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. Retrieved 17 January 2023 – via eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
  5. ^ Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution maps
edit