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Hymenoxys ambigens

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Hymenoxys ambigens is a species of flowering plant in the daisy family known by the common name Pinaleño Mountains rubberweed. It is native to the states of Arizona and New Mexico in the southwestern United States.[2][3]

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Hymenoxys ambigens
Hymenoxys ambigens var. neomexicana
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Hymenoxys
Species:
H. ambigens
Binomial name
Hymenoxys ambigens
(S.F.Blake) Bierner
Synonyms[1]
  • Plummera ambigens S.F.Blake 1929
  • Hymenoxys microcephala (A.Gray) Bierner
  • Plummera floribunda A.Gray
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Hymenoxys ambigens is a perennial herb up to 150 cm (5 feet) tall. Leaves have very narrow lobes resembling branching threads. One plant can produce an array of 25–400 small yellow flower heads, each head with 3-5 ray flowers and 6–15 disc flowers.[4][5]

Varieties[1][4]

History

In 1882, Sarah Plummer Lemmon discovered the species. Harvard University botanist, Asa Gray, first described the species, naming it Plummera floribunda in her honor.[6][7][8] Plummera was redefined as a subgenus of Hymenoxys in 1994.[9]

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