''Hymenoxys lemmonii'' is a 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 ...
known by the common names Lemmon's rubberweed, Lemmon's bitterweed, and alkali hymenoxys. It is native to the western United States in and around the
Great Basin
The Great Basin is the largest area of contiguous endorheic basin, endorheic watersheds, those with no outlets, in North America. It spans nearly all of Nevada, much of Utah, and portions of California, Idaho, Oregon, Wyoming, and Baja California ...
in
Utah,
Nevada, northern
California, and southeastern
Oregon.
''Hymenoxys lemmonii'' is a biennial or perennial herb with one or more branching stems growing erect to a maximum height near 50 centimeters (20 inches). It produces straight, dark green leaves up to 9 centimeters (3.6 inches) long and divided into a number of narrow, pointed lobes. The foliage and stem may be hairless to quite woolly. The daisy-like
flower head is generally at least 1.5 centimeters (0.6 inches) wide, with a center of 50–125 thick golden disc florets and a shaggy fringe of 9–12 golden ray florets.
The species is named for
John Gill Lemmon, husband of prominent American botanist
Sarah Plummer Lemmon.
Greene, Edward Lee. 1898. Pittonia 3(18A): 272
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References
External links
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''Hymenoxys lemmonii''.
The Jepson Manual, University of California 2013.
United States Department of Agriculture plants profileCalPhotos photo gallery, University of CaliforniaPhoto of herbarium specimen at Missouri Botanical Garden, collected in Utah in 1877
lemmonii
Plants described in 1898
Flora of the Western United States
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