''Galinsoga formosa'' is a rare Mexican species of flowering plant 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 has been found only the State of

Oaxaca Oaxaca ( , also , , from nci, Huāxyacac ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Oaxaca ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Oaxaca), is one of the 32 states that compose the political divisions of Mexico, Federative Entities of Mexico. It is ...

in southwestern

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in English, distribution map on page 339Jørgensen, P. M., M. H. Nee & S. G. Beck. (eds.) 2014. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de Bolivia, Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 127(1–2): i–viii, 1–1744

Description

''Galinsoga formosa'' is a branching annual herb up to tall. Leaves are up to long. Flower heads are up to across. Each head has 5-15 white (sometimes with a purplish underside) ray flowers surrounding up to 100 yellow disc flowers.

References

formosa Flora of Oaxaca Plants described in 1973 {{Asteroideae-stub