Calycadenia

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Calycadenia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Calycadenia
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Species

About 10 - See text

Calycadenia is a genus of plants in the sunflower family known commonly as the western rosinweeds. These are found in western North America, where six of them are endemic to California, where they are mostly found in the Central Valley. Some species are quite rare. Western rosinweeds are small, ragged annual plants bearing numerous heads of small radiate flowers which may be white, yellow, or pinkish.

Species:

  • Calycadenia fremontii - Fremont's western rosinweed
  • Calycadenia hooveri - Hoover's western rosinweed
  • Calycadenia mollis - soft western rosinweed
  • Calycadenia multiglandulosa - sticky western rosinweed
  • Calycadenia oppositifolia - Butte County western rosinweed
  • Calycadenia pauciflora - smallflower western rosinweed
  • Calycadenia spicata - spiked western rosinweed
  • Calycadenia truncata - Oregon western rosinweed
  • Calycadenia villosa - dwarf western rosinweed


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