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Chrysogonum

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Chrysogonum is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. , two circumscriptions of the genus were in use. In the broader circumscription, the genus has a discontinuous distribution, with species native to eastern North America and Madagascar. In the narrower circumscription, the genus contains only species native to eastern North America.

Species

northern green-and-gold

GENUS

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassMagnoliopsida
  4. OrderAsterales
  5. FamilyAsteraceae
Native toAlabama, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Madagascar, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina
Observations5,881
Observations recorded6,000

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
83
With media
84
Family
Asteraceae
Collections
CAS, ANSP, TENN, USCH, CHRB
Recorded in
United States

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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents
  • Description
  • Taxonomy
  • Species
  • Former species
  • Uses
  • References

Chrysogonum is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. , two circumscriptions of the genus were in use. In the broader circumscription, the genus has a discontinuous distribution, with species native to eastern North America and Madagascar. In the narrower circumscription, the genus contains only species native to eastern North America.

==Description== The plants are low-growing terrestrial herbs with yellow flower heads containing both disc and ray florets. The genus is distinctive in having pistillate ray florets and staminate disk florets, and the pistil of the ray floret is fused to the adjacent phyllary as well as three paleae and their associated disk florets to form a "cypsela complex".

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chrysogonum” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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