Adenophyllum
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Adenophyllum is a small genus of plants in the sunflower family
Asteraceae
The Asteraceae or Compositae , is an exceedingly large and widespread family of vascular plants. The group has more than 22,750 currently accepted species, spread across 1620 genera and 12 subfamilies...

. It contains ten species known generally as dogweeds. These are gangly, daisylike or thistlelike plants with yellow or reddish flowers. They are native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, where they are most common in desert regions. Some species are considered synonyms under genus Dyssodia
Dyssodia
Dyssodia Cav. is a small genus of flowering plants in the daisy family. Most dyssodias are now treated as members of other related genera, including Thymophylla or Adenophyllum, with Dyssodia as genus synonym...

and may have dyssodia as their common names.
Species include:
  • Adenophyllum anomalum (Canby & Rose) Strother
  • Adenophyllum appendiculatum (Lag.) Strother
  • Adenophyllum aurantium (L.) Strother
  • Adenophyllum cooperi (A.Gray) Strother - Cooper's dyssodia, Cooper's dogweed
  • Adenophyllum glandulosum (Cav.) Strother
  • Adenophyllum porophylloides
    Adenophyllum porophylloides
    Adenophyllum porophylloides is a species of flowering plant in the daisy family known by the common names San Felipe dogweed and San Felipe dyssodia. It is native to the Sonoran and Mojave Deserts of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. This is an aromatic desert subshrub with...

    (A.Gray) Strother - San Felipe dogweed
  • Adenophyllum porophyllum (Cav.) Hemsl. - poreleaf dogweed
  • Adenophyllum speciosum (A.Gray) Strother
  • Adenophyllum squamosum (A.Gray) Strother
  • Adenophyllum wrightii A.Gray - Wright's dogweed

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