''Viguiera'' is a genus of
flowering plant
Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. The term "angiosperm" is derived from the Greek words ('container, vessel') and ('seed'), and refers to those plants th ...
s 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 ...
. The name honours French physician
L. G. Alexandre Viguier (1790–1867).
It contains around 150 species, which are commonly known as goldeneyes and are native to the New World. These are
herbs
In general use, herbs are a widely distributed and widespread group of plants, excluding vegetables and other plants consumed for macronutrients, with savory or aromatic properties that are used for flavoring and garnishing food, for medicinal ...
to bushy
shrub
A shrub (often also called a bush) is a small-to-medium-sized perennial woody plant. Unlike herbaceous plants, shrubs have persistent woody stems above the ground. Shrubs can be either deciduous or evergreen. They are distinguished from trees ...
s that bear yellow or orange daisy-like flowers.
Selected species
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Viguiera australis''
S.F.Blake
Sidney Fay Blake (1892–1959) was an American botanist and plant taxonomist, "recognized as one of the world's experts on botanical nomenclature."
Biography
Blake was born in 1892 in Stoughton, Massachusetts. In 1912, he received a bachelor's d ...
* ''
Viguiera cordifolia''
A.Gray
Asa Gray (November 18, 1810 – January 30, 1888) is considered the most important American botanist of the 19th century. His '' Darwiniana'' was considered an important explanation of how religion and science were not necessarily mutually exc ...
– Heartleaf Goldeneye
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Viguiera dentata''
(Cav.) Spreng. – Sunflower Goldeneye, Toothleaf Goldeneye
* ''
Viguiera media''
S.F.Blake
* ''
Viguiera nudicaulis''
Baker
* ''
Viguiera paneroi''
B.L.Turner
* ''
Viguiera pazensis''
Rusby
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Viguiera phenax''
S.F.Blake – Field Goldeneye
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Viguiera procumbens''
(Pers.) S.F.Blake
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Viguiera sodiroi''
(Hieron.) S.F.Blake
* ''
Viguiera stenoloba
''Viguiera'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. The name honours French physician L. G. Alexandre Viguier (1790–1867). It contains around 150 species, which are commonly known as goldeneyes and are native to the New World ...
''
S.F.Blake – Skeletonleaf Goldeneye
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Viguiera sylvatica''
Klatt
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Viguiera triloba''
(A.Gray) J.Olsen – Yellow Streamers
* ''
Viguiera tuberosa''
( Sch.Bip.) Benth.
George Bentham (22 September 1800 – 10 September 1884) was an English botanist, described by the weed botanist Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century". Born into a distinguished family, he initially studie ...
& Hook.f.
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (30 June 1817 – 10 December 1911) was a British botanist and explorer in the 19th century. He was a founder of geographical botany and Charles Darwin's closest friend. For twenty years he served as director of ...
ex Griseb.
August Heinrich Rudolf Grisebach () was a German botany, botanist and phytogeography, phytogeographer. He was born in Hannover on 17 April 1814 and died in Göttingen on 9 May 1879.
Biography
Grisebach studied at the Lyceum in Hanover, the clo ...
Formerly placed here
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Bahiopsis deltoidea'' (as ''V. deltoidea'')
* ''
Bahiopsis laciniata''
(A.Gray) E.E.Schill. & Panero (as ''V. laciniata''
A.Gray)
* ''
Bahiopsis parishii''
(Greene) E.E.Schill. & Panero (as ''V. deltoidea'' var. ''parishii''
(Greene) Vasey & Rose and ''V. parishii''
Greene)
* ''
Bahiopsis reticulata''
(S.Watson) E.E.Schill. & Panero (as ''V. reticulata''
S.Watson)
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Helianthus porteri
''Helianthus porteri'' is a species of sunflower known by the common names Porter's sunflower, Stone Mountain daisy and Confederate daisy. The term "daisy" is a imprecise because the species is a sunflower (''Helianthus'') rather than a daisy (' ...
''
(A.Gray) Pruski (as ''V. porteri''
(A.Gray) S.F.Blake)
*
''Heliomeris longifolia'' var. ''annua'' (M.E.Jones) W.F.Yates (as ''V. annua''
(M.E.Jones) W.F.Yates)
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''Heliomeris multiflora'' var. ''multiflora'' Nutt. (as ''V. multiflora''
(Nutt.) S.F.Blake)
References
External links
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USDA Plants ProfileJepson Manual TreatmentFlora North America Treatment of Bahiopsis
Asteraceae genera
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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