Stephanomeria

Stephanomeria is a genus of North American plants also known as wirelettuce, belonging to the tribe Cichorieae within the family Asteraceae.

Stephanomeria species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Schinia scarletina, which feeds exclusively on the genus.

Annual species

• Stephanomeria diegensisGottlieb - San Diego wirelettuce - Baja California, southern California; Hybrid origin: S. exigua х S. virgata
• Stephanomeria elataNutt. - Santa Barbara wirelettuce - California and Oregon; 2n=32
• Stephanomeria exiguaNutt. - small wirelettuce - widespread throughout western United States + Baja California; 2n=16
• Gand. - Kansas
• Stephanomeria malheurensisGottlieb - Malheur wirelettuce - Harney County in Oregon; 2n=16
• M.E.Jones - Chihuahua
• Stephanomeria paniculataNutt. - tufted wirelettuce - Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Idaho; 2n=16
• Stephanomeria virgataBenth. - rod wirelettuce - California, Oregon, Nevada, Baja California; 2n=16

Perennial species

• Stephanomeria cichoriaceaA.Gray - chicoryleaf wirelettuce - southern California; 2n=16
• Stephanomeria flumineaGottlieb - Teton wirelettuce - Endemic to northwestern Wyoming; 2n=16
• Brandegee - Endemic to Guadalupe Island in Baja California; 2n=16
• Stephanomeria lactucinaA.Gray - woodland wirelettuce - California, Oregon and Nevada; 2n=16
• Moran - Baja California
• Stephanomeria occultataWellard & J.W.Baker - Endemic to Weber River corridor, Northern Utah; 2n=16
• Stephanomeria parryiA.Gray - Parry's wirelettuce - Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah; 2n=32
• Stephanomeria pauciflora(Torr.) A.Nelson - Brownplume wirelettuce - widespread, southwestern United States; Mexico (Baja California, Sonora, Coahuila); 2n=16
• Stephanomeria runcinataNutt. - desert wirelettuce - Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, Utah, Wyoming, North Dakota, Alberta, Saskatchewan; 2n=16
• Stephanomeria tenuifolia(Raf.) H.M.Hall - narrow-leaved wirelettuce - western United States; Saskatchewan, British Columbia, Baja California; 2n=16
• A.Gray - Thurber's wirelettuce - New Mexico, Arizona, Sonora, Texas; 2n=16

formerly included

see ChaetadelphaMicroserisMunzothamnusPleiacanthusPrenanthella