Stephanomeria
wirelettuce | |
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Stephanomeria virgata | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
(unranked): | Angiosperms |
(unranked): | Eudicots |
(unranked): | Asterids |
Order: | Asterales |
Family: | Asteraceae |
Tribe: | Cichorieae |
Genus: | Stephanomeria Nutt. |
Type species | |
Stephanomeria minor[1] (syn of S. tenuifolia)[2] (Hook.) Nutt. | |
Synonyms[3] | |
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Stephanomeria is a genus of North American plants also known as wirelettuce, belonging to the dandelion tribe within the sunflower family.[4][5]
Stephanomeria species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Schinia scarletina, which feeds exclusively on the genus.
- Stephanomeria cichoriacea A.Gray - chicoryleaf wirelettuce - southern California
- Stephanomeria diegensis Gottlieb - wreathplant - Baja California, southern California; Hybrid origin: S. exigua х S. virgata[8]
- Stephanomeria elata Nutt. - Santa Barbara wirelettuce - California and Oregon
- Stephanomeria exiguaNutt. - small wirelettuce - widespread throughout western USA + Baja California
- Stephanomeria fluminea Gottlieb - Teton wirelettuce - Endemic to northwestern Wyoming
- Stephanomeria guadalupensis Brandegee - Endemic to Guadalupe Island in Baja California
- Stephanomeria hitchcockii Gand. - Kansas
- Stephanomeria lactucina A.Gray - lettuce - California, Oregon and Nevada
- Stephanomeria malheurensis Gottlieb - Malheur wirelettuce - Harney County in Oregon
- Stephanomeria mexiae M.E.Jones - Chihuahua
- Stephanomeria monocephala Moran - Baja California
- Stephanomeria paniculata Nutt. - tufted wirelettuce - Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Idaho
- Stephanomeria parryi A.Gray - Parry's wirelettuce - Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah
- Stephanomeria pauciflora (Torr.) A.Nelson - Brownplume wirelettuce - widespread, southwestern USA; Mexico (Baja California, Sonora, Coahuila)
- Stephanomeria runcinata Nutt. - desert wirelettuce - Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, Utah, Wyoming, North Dakota, Alberta, Saskatchewan
- Stephanomeria tenuifolia (Raf.) H.M.Hall - western USA; Saskatchewan, British Columbia, Baja California
- Stephanomeria thurberi A.Gray - Thurber's wirelettuce - New Mexico, Arizona, Sonora, Texas
- Stephanomeria virgata Benth. - rod wirelettuce - California, Oregon, Nevada, Baja California
- 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
References
- ↑ Tropicos, Stephanomeria Nutt.
- ↑ Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist, Stephanomeria minor (Hook.) Nutt.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist Stephanomeria
- ↑ Nuttall, Thomas. 1841. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, new series 7: 427–428 in English
- ↑ Lee, J., Baldwin, B., and Gottlieb, L.D.; Phylogeny of Stephanomeria and related genera (compositae-lactuceae) bed on analysis of 18S-26S nuclear rDNA ITS and ETS sequences; American Journal of Botany. 2002; 89:160-168
- ↑ Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution maps
- ↑ CONABIO. 2009. Catálogo taxonómico de especies de México. 1. In Capital Nat. México. CONABIO, México D.F..
- ↑ Gallez G.P.L.D., Gottlieb 1982 Genetic evidence for the hybrid origin of the diploid plant Stephanomeria diegensis. Evolution 36: 1158-1167
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