Stephanomeria
Genus of plants
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Stephanomeria is a genus of North American plants also known as wirelettuce,[4] belonging to the tribe Cichorieae within the family Asteraceae.[5][6]
| Stephanomeria | |
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| Stephanomeria virgata | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Subfamily: | Cichorioideae |
| Tribe: | Cichorieae |
| Subtribe: | Microseridinae |
| Genus: | Stephanomeria Nutt. |
| Type species | |
| Stephanomeria minor[1] (syn of S. tenuifolia)[2] | |
| Synonyms[3] | |
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Stephanomeria species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Schinia scarletina, which feeds exclusively on the genus.
- Stephanomeria diegensis Gottlieb - San Diego wirelettuce - Baja California, southern California; Hybrid origin: S. exigua х S. virgata[9]
- Stephanomeria elata Nutt. - Santa Barbara wirelettuce - California and Oregon; 2n=32
- Stephanomeria exigua Nutt. - small wirelettuce - widespread throughout western United States + Baja California; 2n=16
- Stephanomeria hitchcockii Gand. - Kansas
- Stephanomeria malheurensis Gottlieb - Malheur wirelettuce - Harney County in Oregon; 2n=16
- Stephanomeria mexiae M.E.Jones - Chihuahua
- Stephanomeria paniculata Nutt. - tufted wirelettuce - Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Idaho; 2n=16
- Stephanomeria virgata Benth. - rod wirelettuce - California, Oregon, Nevada, Baja California; 2n=16
- Stephanomeria cichoriacea A.Gray - chicoryleaf wirelettuce - southern California; 2n=16
- Stephanomeria fluminea Gottlieb - Teton wirelettuce - Endemic to northwestern Wyoming; 2n=16
- Stephanomeria guadalupensis Brandegee - Endemic to Guadalupe Island in Baja California; 2n=16
- Stephanomeria lactucina A.Gray - woodland wirelettuce - California, Oregon and Nevada; 2n=16
- Stephanomeria monocephala Moran - Baja California
- Stephanomeria occultata Wellard & J.W.Baker - Endemic to Weber River corridor, Northern Utah; 2n=16
- Stephanomeria parryi A.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 runcinata Nutt. - 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
- Stephanomeria thurberi A.Gray - Thurber's wirelettuce - New Mexico, Arizona, Sonora, Texas; 2n=16
- formerly included
see Chaetadelpha Microseris Munzothamnus Pleiacanthus Prenanthella
- Stephanomeria blairii - Munzothamnus blairii
- Stephanomeria intermedia - Microseris nutans
- Stephanomeria minima - Prenanthella exigua
- Stephanomeria spinosa - Pleiacanthus spinosus
- Stephanomeria wheeleri - Chaetadelpha wheeleri
