Stylocline psilocarphoides

Stylocline psilocarphoides is a species of flowering plant in the aster family known by the common names baretwig neststraw[1] and Peck's neststraw. It is native to the western United States from Idaho to southeastern California, where it grows in deserts and other dry, sandy, gravelly habitat. It is a small annual herb growing at ground level with stems measuring 1 to 18 centimeters in length. It is woolly or felt-like in texture with a coating of white hairs. The pointed leaves are up to 1.8 centimeters long and alternately arranged. The inflorescence bears oval flower heads no more than half a centimeter in diameter. The head generally has no phyllaries, or has small ones that fall away early. It is a hardened ball of several woolly white flowers.

Stylocline psilocarphoides
Peck neststraw, Stylocline psilocarphoides, White Mountains, elevation 1705 m (5590 ft)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
(unranked):
Angiosperms
(unranked):
Eudicots
(unranked):
Asterids
Order:
Asterales
Family:
Asteraceae
Tribe:
Inuleae
Genus:
Stylocline
Species:
S. psilocarphoides
Binomial name
Stylocline psilocarphoides
M.Peck

References
  1. "Stylocline pislocarphoides". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. Retrieved 4 December 2015.


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