Atrichoseris

Gravel ghosts
tobacco weed
parachute plant
Atrichoseris platyphylla
at Lake Mead
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Tribe: Cichorieae
Genus: Atrichoseris
Species: A. platyphylla
Binomial name
Atrichoseris platyphylla
A. Gray
Synonyms[1]
  • Anathrix A.Gray
  • Malacothrix unranked Anathrix A. Gray
  • Malacothrix platyphylla A.Gray

Atrichoseris is a genus of plants in the dandelion family.[2][1] It contains only one known species, Atrichoseris platyphylla, known by the common names tobacco weed, parachute plant, and gravel ghost.[3]

Atrichoseris platyphylla is native to the deserts of the southwestern United States (southern California, Arizona, Nevada and the southwestern corner of Utah) and northwestern Mexico (Sonora, Baja California). It produces a low basal rosette of rounded leaves patterned with gray-green and purple patches at ground level. It sends up a weedy-looking thin branching stem topped with a number of attractive, fragrant white or pink-tinged flowers, the layered ray florets rectangular and toothed.[4][5]

Gravel ghosts in Death Valley National Park, March 2005.

References

  1. 1 2 Tropicos, Atrichoseris A. Gray
  2. ↑ Gray, Asa. 1884. Synoptical Flora of North America 1(2): 410
  3. ↑ Flora of North America, Atrichoseris A. Gray in A. Gray et al., Syn. Fl. N. Amer. 1(2): 410. 1884.
  4. ↑ Jepson Manual Treatment
  5. ↑ Photo gallery

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