Guardiola Carinata

	Guardiola Carinata ''Guardiola carinata'' is a rare North American species of plants in the family Asteraceae The family Asteraceae, alternatively Compositae, consists of over 32,000 known species of flowering plants in over 1,900 genera within the order Asterales. Commonly referred to as the aster, daisy, composite, or sunflower family, Compositae w .... It is found only in northern Mexico in the state of Nayarit. ''Guardiola carinata'' is a branching woody perennial, hairless except a few hairs on the pedicels. Flower heads have both ray flowers and disc flowers. The ''Guardiola carinata'' is a yellow color. References carinata Flora of Nayarit Plants described in 1899 {{Millerieae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Asteraceae The family Asteraceae, alternatively Compositae, consists of over 32,000 known species of flowering plants in over 1,900 genera within the order Asterales. Commonly referred to as the aster, daisy, composite, or sunflower family, Compositae were first described in the year 1740. The number of species in Asteraceae is rivaled only by the Orchidaceae, and which is the larger family is unclear as the quantity of extant species in each family is unknown. Most species of Asteraceae are annual, biennial, or perennial herbaceous plants, but there are also shrubs, vines, and trees. The family has a widespread distribution, from subpolar to tropical regions in a wide variety of habitats. Most occur in hot desert and cold or hot semi-desert climates, and they are found on every continent but Antarctica. The primary common characteristic is the existence of sometimes hundreds of tiny individual florets which are held together by protective involucres in flower heads, or more technicall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Nayarit Nayarit (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Nayarit ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Nayarit), is one of the 31 states that, along with Mexico City, comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 20 municipalities and its capital city is Tepic. It is bordered by the states of Sinaloa to the northwest, Durango to the north, Zacatecas to the northeast and Jalisco to the south. To the west, Nayarit has a significant share of coastline on the Pacific Ocean, including the islands of Marías and Marietas. The beaches of San Blas and the so-called "Riviera Nayarit" are popular with tourists. Besides tourism, the economy of the state is based mainly on agriculture and fishing. It is also one of two states where the tarantula species ''Brachypelma klaasi'' is found, the other being Jalisco. Home to Uto-Aztecan indigenous peoples such as the Huichol and Cora, the region was exposed to the ''conquistadores'', Hernán Cortés and Nuño de Guzmán, in the 16t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Guardiola (plant) ''Guardiola'' is a genus of plants in the family Asteraceae, native to Mexico and the southwestern United States. Members of the genus are subshrubs with simple, opposite leaves and terminal inflorescences. Originally placed in the subtribe Melampodiinae, the genus was placed in its own subtribe, Guardiolinae, by Harold Robinson in 1978. ; Species * '' Guardiola angustifolia'' (A.Gray ex A.Gray) B.L.Rob. - Jalisco * '' Guardiola arguta'' B.L.Rob. - Sonora * '' Guardiola carinata'' B.L.Rob. - Nayarit * †'' Guardiola diehlii'' M.E.Jones - New Mexico but probably extinct * '' Guardiola mexicana'' Humb. & Bonpl. - from Durango to Oaxaca * '' Guardiola odontophylla'' B.L.Rob. - Durango * '' Guardiola palmeri'' B.L.Rob. - Durango * '' Guardiola pappifera'' Paul G.Wilson - Guerrero * ''Guardiola platyphylla'' A.Gray - Arizona ( Gila, Pima, Santa Cruz, Cochise Counties), Sonora, Sinaloa, Chihuahua * '' Guardiola rosei'' B.L.Rob. - Chihuahua, Nayarit, Durango * '' Guardiola rotun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Flora Of Nayarit Flora (: floras or florae) is all the plant life present in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring (indigenous) native plants. The corresponding term for animals is ''fauna'', and for fungi, it is ''funga''. Sometimes bacteria and fungi are also referred to as flora as in the terms ''gut flora'' or ''skin flora''. Etymology The word "flora" comes from the Latin name of Flora, the goddess of plants, flowers, and fertility in Roman mythology. The technical term "flora" is then derived from a metonymy of this goddess at the end of the sixteenth century. It was first used in poetry to denote the natural vegetation of an area, but soon also assumed the meaning of a work cataloguing such vegetation. Moreover, "Flora" was used to refer to the flowers of an artificial garden in the seventeenth century. The distinction between vegetation (the general appearance of a community) and flora (the taxonomic composition of a community) was first made by Jules Thurmann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]