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Enceliopsis

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Enceliopsis

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Enceliopsis is a small genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. They are sometimes called sunrays. They are similar to the daisylike plants in the related genus Encelia. These three shrubs are native to the western United States and Canada.

Species

Sunray

GENUS

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassMagnoliopsida
  4. OrderAsterales
  5. FamilyAsteraceae

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
5
With media
4
Family
Asteraceae
Collections
UAM, KSTC, VT, UF
Recorded in
United States

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Enceliopsis is a small genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. They are sometimes called sunrays. They are similar to the daisylike plants in the related genus Encelia. These three shrubs are native to the western United States and Canada. Species Enceliopsis argophylla - silverleaf sunray - Arizona (Mohave Co), Nevada (Clark Co), Utah (Washington Co) Enceliopsis covillei - Panamint daisy - Inyo County in California Enceliopsis nudicaulis - nakedstem sunray - California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Idaho

==References==

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

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