Psilocarphus
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Psilocarphus is a genus
of flowering plants in the daisy family
. They are known commonly as woolly marbles or woollyheads. They are native to the Americas, especially western North America.
There are about 5 species:
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of flowering plants in the daisy 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...
. They are known commonly as woolly marbles or woollyheads. They are native to the Americas, especially western North America.
There are about 5 species:
- Psilocarphus brevissimusPsilocarphus brevissimusPsilocarphus brevissimus is a species of flowering plant in the aster family known by the common name short woollyheads. It is native to western North America from southwestern Canada, California, to northwestern Mexico, as well as southern South America, where it grows in moist flats, such as...
- Psilocarphus chilensis
- Psilocarphus elatiorPsilocarphus elatiorPsilocarphus elatior is a species of flowering plant in the aster family known by the common names tall woollyheads and meadow woollyheads. It is native to the Pacific Northwest in western North America from Vancouver Island, where it is known from just a few occurrences, to northern California...
- Psilocarphus oregonusPsilocarphus oregonusPsilocarphus oregonus is a species of flowering plant in the aster family known by the common names Oregon woollyheads and Oregon woolly marbles...
- Psilocarphus tenellusPsilocarphus tenellusPsilocarphus tenellus is a species of flowering plant in the aster family known by the common names slender woollyheads and slender woolly marbles...