''Hymenopappus mexicanus'', the Mexican woollywhite, is a North American species of flowering plant in the
daisy family
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 grows in northern Mexico (
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**Chihuahua (dog), a breed of dog named after the state
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,
San Luis Potosí
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) and the southwestern United States (
Arizona,
New Mexico).
''Hymenopappus mexicanus'' is a biennial herb up to 90 cm (3 feet) tall. One plant produces 1-20 flower heads per stem, each head with 20-40 yellow disc flowers but no ray flowers.
Flora of North America, ''Hymenopappus mexicanus'' A. Gray, 1883.
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References
External links
Photo of herbarium specimen at Missouri Botanical Garden, collected in New Mexico in 1881
mexicanus
Flora of Arizona
Flora of Chihuahua (state)
Flora of New Mexico
Flora of San Luis Potosí
Plants described in 1883
Taxa named by Asa Gray
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