Gutierrezia
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Gutierrezia is a genus of flowering plants in the sunflower family
. Plants of this genus are known generally as snakeweeds or matchweeds. There are about 25 species found in North and South America. These plants contain chemical compounds which can be toxic to livestock and some are considered weeds. They bear small yellow daisylike flowers.
Selected species:
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...
. Plants of this genus are known generally as snakeweeds or matchweeds. There are about 25 species found in North and South America. These plants contain chemical compounds which can be toxic to livestock and some are considered weeds. They bear small yellow daisylike flowers.
Selected species:
- Gutierrezia arizonica - Arizona snakeweed
- Gutierrezia californicaGutierrezia californicaGutierrezia californica is a species of flowering plant in the daisy family known by the common names San Joaquin snakeweed and California matchweed. It is native to California and Baja California, where it grows on slopes and plains in a number of habitats.This is a small subshrub reaching up to...
- San Joaquin snakeweed - Gutierrezia elegansGutierrezia elegansGutierrezia elegans, the Lone Mesa snakeweed, is a species of Gutierrezia that was discovered by Peggy Lyon, a Colorado State University botanist, and Al Schneider, an amateur botanist of the Four Corners area, August 4, 2008....
- Lone Mesa snakeweed - Gutierrezia microcephalaGutierrezia microcephalaGutierrezia microcephala is a species of flowering plant in the daisy family known by the common names sticky snakeweed and threadleaf snakeweed...
- Gutierrezia petradoria
- Gutierrezia sarothraeGutierrezia sarothraeGutierrezia sarothrae is a species of flowering plant in the daisy family known by the common names broom snakeweed and perennial matchweed. It is native to much of the western half of North America, from central Canada to northern Mexico...
- broom snakeweed, matchbrush - Gutierrezia serotina - late snakeweed
- Gutierrezia sphaerocephala
- Gutierrezia texana - Texas snakeweed