Hazardia
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Hazardia is a small genus of flowering plants in the daisy family
. Plants in this genus may be called bristleweeds or goldenbushes. They are native to the western United States, especially California, and far northern Mexico. They are short, hardy perennials or small leafy shrubs. Some species have sharply toothed leaves. Generally they bear yellow flowers, with some having ray florets
and appearing somewhat daisylike while others have only disc florets. The genus was named after the botanist Barclay Hazard.
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Some species are in synonymy with genus Haplopappus
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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 in this genus may be called bristleweeds or goldenbushes. They are native to the western United States, especially California, and far northern Mexico. They are short, hardy perennials or small leafy shrubs. Some species have sharply toothed leaves. Generally they bear yellow flowers, with some having ray florets
Head (botany)
The capitulum is considered the most derived form of inflorescence. Flower heads found outside Asteraceae show lesser degrees of specialization....
and appearing somewhat daisylike while others have only disc florets. The genus was named after the botanist Barclay Hazard.
Selected species:
- Hazardia brickellioidesHazardia brickellioidesHazardia brickellioides is a species of shrub in the daisy family known by the common name brickellbush goldenweed. It is native to the Mojave Desert of California and Nevada, where it grows in rocky limestone habitat. This bushy shrub produces a stem 20 to 80 centimeters tall which is coated in...
- brickellbush goldenweed - Hazardia canaHazardia canaHazardia cana is a rare species of shrub in the daisy family known by the common name San Clemente Island hazardia, or simply island hazardia. It is native to San Clemente Island, one of the Channel Islands of California, and Guadalupe Island off Baja California. This is a bushy shrub reaching one...
- island hazardia, San Clemente Island hazardia - Hazardia detonsaHazardia detonsaHazardia detonsa is a rare species of shrub in the daisy family known by the common name island bristleweed. It is endemic to three of the eight Channel Islands of California. This is a bushy shrub reaching 60 centimeters to 2.5 meters in height. It has densely woolly, glandular herbage of thick,...
- island bristleweed - Hazardia orcuttii - Orcutt's bristleweed
- Hazardia squarrosaHazardia squarrosaHazardia squarrosa is a species of shrub in the daisy family known by the common name sawtooth goldenbush. It is native to California and Baja California, where it grows in coastal and inland scrub and chaparral habitats. This is a shrub of variable size, from low and clumpy to sprawling over two...
- sawtooth goldenbush - Hazardia stenolepis - serpentine bristleweed
- Hazardia whitneyi - Whitney's bristleweed
Some species are in synonymy with genus Haplopappus
Haplopappus
Haplopappus is a genus of flowering plant in the Asteraceae family. Until the 1990s, Haplopappus was a wastebasket taxon for many species in the tribe Astereae, and most species have since been moved to other genera.-Selected species:...
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