Hazardia rosarica

Hazardia rosarica is a Mexican species of shrub in the family Asteraceae.

Hazardia rosarica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Hazardia
Species:
H. rosarica
Binomial name
Hazardia rosarica
(Moran) W.D.Clark 1979
Synonyms[1]
  • Haplopappus rosaricus Moran 1969

The plant is endemic to Mexico, found only in the state of Baja California in northwestern Mexico.[2] It grows on the Pacific side of the Baja California Peninsula.

Description

Hazardia rosarica is a shrub up to 90 cm (3 feet) tall with lemon-scented foliage. It has several stems arising from a woody underground caudex.

The plant produces numerous flower heads each head with 12-30 yellow disc flowers but no ray flowers.[3]

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References

  1. The Plant List, Hazardia rosarica (Moran) W.D.Clark
  2. SEINet, Southwestern Biodiversity, Arizona chapter photos of herbarium specimens, description, distribution map.
  3. Moran, Reid Venable. 1969. Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History 15(11): 159–161 includes black & white photograph on page 160, as Haplopappus rosaricus


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