Isocoma pluriflora

Southern Goldenbush
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	Asterales
Family:	Asteraceae
Tribe:	Astereae
Genus:	Isocoma
Species:	I. pluriflora
Binomial name
*Isocoma pluriflora* (Torr. & A.Gray) Greene 1894
Synonyms^[1]
Synonymy Linosyris pluriflora Torr. & A.Gray 1842 Aster heterophyllus (A.Gray) Kuntze 1891 not Thunb. 1800 Bigelowia pluriflora (Torr. & A.Gray) A.Gray Bigelowia wrightii (A.Gray) A.Gray Bigelovia pluriflora (Torr. & A.Gray) A.Gray Bigelovia wrightii (A.Gray) A.Gray Chrysocoma graveolens Torr. Haplopappus heterophyllus (A.Gray) S.F.Blake Haplopappus pluriflorus (Torr. & A.Gray) H.M.Hall Isocoma halophytica B.L.Turner Isocoma heterophylla (A.Gray) Greene Isocoma hirtella (A.Gray) A.Heller Isocoma oxylepis Wooton & Standl. Isocoma wrightii (A.Gray) Rydb. Linosyris heterophylla A.Gray Linosyris hirtella A.Gray Linosyris wrightii A.Gray

Isocoma pluriflora, commonly called Southern jimmyweed, is a North American species of flowering perennial herbs in the sunflower family. It grows northern Mexico (Baja California Sur, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León) and in the southwestern and south-central United States (Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Texas).^[2]^[3]^[4]

Isocoma pluriflora grows 1–3.5 feet (0.30–1.07 m) tall. Leaves are narrow, up to 5 cm (2 inches) long. The plant produces numerous flower heads in a cluster at the top of the stem, each head with 8-21 yellow disc flowers but no ray flowers. The species is named "pluriflora", 'many flowered', for its up to 25-50 vertical and approximately parallel stalks, tipped with yellow golden flower heads.^[5]

References

↑ The Plant List, Isocoma pluriflora (Torr. & A.Gray) Greene
↑ Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map
↑ SEINet, Southwestern Biodiversity, Arizona chapter photos, descriptions, distribution map
↑ Nesom, G.L. 1991. Taxonomy of Isocoma (Compositae: Astereae). Phytologia 70(2): 69–114 description and discussion of I. pluriflora on pages 102-106, distribution map on page 73
↑ Flora of North America, Isocoma pluriflora (Torrey & A. Gray) Greene, 1894. Southern jimmyweed

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Plants in the Isocoma genus

Isocoma acradenia Isocoma arguta Isocoma menziesii Isocoma pluriflora Isocoma tenuisecta Isocoma veneta

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