Raillardella
Encyclopedia
Raillardella is a genus
of flowering plants in the daisy family
. The genus is native to the western United States of Oregon
, California
, and Nevada
.
There are three 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...
. The genus is native to the western United States of Oregon
Oregon
Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located on the Pacific coast, with Washington to the north, California to the south, Nevada on the southeast and Idaho to the east. The Columbia and Snake rivers delineate much of Oregon's northern and eastern...
, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
, and Nevada
Nevada
Nevada is a state in the western, mountain west, and southwestern regions of the United States. With an area of and a population of about 2.7 million, it is the 7th-largest and 35th-most populous state. Over two-thirds of Nevada's people live in the Las Vegas metropolitan area, which contains its...
.
There are three species:
- Raillardella argenteaRaillardella argenteaRaillardella argentea is a species of flowering plant in the aster family known by the common name silky raillardella. It is native to the Sierra Nevada and nearby mountain ranges of California, its distribution extending east into Nevada and north along the Cascade Range and Klamath Mountains into...
- silky raillardella - Raillardella pringleiRaillardella pringleiRaillardella pringlei is an uncommon species of flowering plant in the aster family known by the common name showy raillardella. It is endemic to the southern Klamath Ranges of northern California, where it grows in moist forest habitat on serpentine soils. It is a rhizomatous perennial herb...
- showy raillardella - Raillardella scaposaRaillardella scaposaRaillardella scaposa is an species of flowering plant in the aster family known by the common name stem raillardella. It is native to the Sierra Nevada of California and western Nevada and parts of the southern Cascade Range in Oregon, where it grows in varying habitat types, from wet to dry and...
- stem raillardella