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Malacothrix Clevelandii
''Malacothrix clevelandii'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name Cleveland's desertdandelion. It is native to parts of the southwestern United States and Baja California, where it can be found most often in chaparral, including cleared and disturbed areas such as slopes recently burned by wildfire. The plant is also found in southern South America where it is an introduced species. It is an annual herb producing a flowering stem up to about 35 centimeters in maximum height. The toothed leaves are largest at the base of the plant, and reduced farther up. The inflorescence is an array of flower heads each bearing rings of pale yellow ray florets roughly half a centimeter long. Its specific epithet In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asa Gray
Asa Gray (November 18, 1810 – January 30, 1888) is considered the most important American botanist of the 19th century. His '' Darwiniana'' was considered an important explanation of how religion and science were not necessarily mutually exclusive. Gray was adamant that a genetic connection must exist between all members of a species. He was also strongly opposed to the ideas of hybridization within one generation and special creation in the sense of its not allowing for evolution. He was a strong supporter of Darwin, although Gray's theistic evolution was guided by a Creator. As a professor of botany at Harvard University for several decades, Gray regularly visited, and corresponded with, many of the leading natural scientists of the era, including Charles Darwin, who held great regard for him. Gray made several trips to Europe to collaborate with leading European scientists of the era, as well as trips to the southern and western United States. He also built an extensive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cryptantha Clevelandii
''Cryptantha clevelandii'' is a species of flowering plant in the borage family known by the common name Cleveland's cryptantha. It is native to coastal California and Baja California, where it grows in the chaparral and other habitat in the coastal hills. It is an annual herb growing a branching or unbranched stem up to 60 centimeters tall. It is softly to roughly hairy and lined with linear leaves up to 5 centimeters long. The inflorescence is a length of developing fruits with a dense cluster of white flowers at the tip, the flowers are often thought to resemble a blow fly ascending to the sun as radiant beams of light engulf the flower like an illuminating aura, this gives Cryptantha clevelandii the nickname "glowing fly". Its specific epithet In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malacothrix (plant)
''Malacothrix'' is a genus of plants in the tribe Cichorieae within the family Asteraceae. They are known generally as desert dandelions or desertdandelions. Most are native to western North America although a few have been introduced to South America. Several are found only on offshore islands in the Pacific.''Malacothrix''. Flora of North America. Phylogenetics, Phylogenetic analysis demonstrates that ''Malacothrix'' is not monophyly, monophyletic. Some of its species are related to ''Atrichoseris'', whereas a second group is more closely related to ''Anisocoma'' and ''Calycoseris''.Lee, J., et al. (2003) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castilleja
''Castilleja'', commonly known as paintbrush, Indian paintbrush, or prairie-fire, is a genus of about 200 species of annual and perennial herbaceous plants native to the west of the Americas from Alaska south to the Andes, northern Asia, and one species as far west as the Kola Peninsula in northwestern Russia. These plants are classified in the broomrape family Orobanchaceae (following major rearrangements of the order Lamiales starting around 2001; sources which do not follow these reclassifications may place them in the Scrophulariaceae). They are hemiparasitic on the roots of grasses and forbs. The generic name honors Spanish botanist Domingo Castillejo. Ecology ''Castilleja'' species are eaten by the larvae of some lepidopteran species, including '' Schinia cupes'' (which has been recorded on ''C. exserta'') and '' Schinia pulchripennis'' (which feeds exclusively on ''C. exserta''), and checkerspot butterflies, such as '' Euphydryas'' species. Pollinators aid these pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clevelandia (plant)
''Castilleja beldingii'' is a species of hemiparasitic plant in the broomrape family, formerly the only species in the genus ''Clevelandia'', it was moved to the genus '' Castilleja'', the 'indian paintbrushes', in 2009. Taxonomy Edward Lee Greene first described it as ''Orthocarpus beldingi'' in 1885, but he later reclassified it in the monotypic genus ''Clevelandia'' in the ''Bulletin of the California Academy of Sciences'' in 1886. The spelling was later correct to ''beldingii''. However, Greene reclassified it invalidly, the German taxonomist Karl August Otto Hoffmann rectified this and published Greene's name correctly in Adolf Engler's classic ''Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien'' in 1893. After molecular phylogenetic work, Tank ''et al'' moved it to the large genus '' Castilleja'' in 2009. The lectotype was collected in the Sierra La Victoria by the American ornithologist Lyman Belding during his expedition to Baja California in 1883. It was only designated as such in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penstemon Clevelandii
''Penstemon clevelandii'' is a species of penstemon known by the common name Cleveland's beardtongue. It is native to southern California and Baja California, where it grows in mountain and desert habitat such as scrub, woodland, and chaparral. It is a perennial herb with upright, branching stems 70 centimeters in maximum height. The thick leaves are oval in shape, sometimes toothed, and 2 to 6 centimeters in length. The inflorescence produces tubular flowers with expanded, lipped mouths. The flower is pink to magenta in color, up to 2.4 centimeters in length, and somewhat glandular on the outer surface. Its specific epithet In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ... ''clevelandii'' honors 19th-century San Diego-based plant collector and lawyer Daniel Cleveland. There are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicotiana Clevelandii
''Nicotiana clevelandii'' is a species of wild tobacco known by the common name Cleveland's tobacco. Its specific epithet ''clevelandii'' honors 19th-century San Diego-based plant collector and lawyer Daniel Cleveland. It is native to northwestern Mexico and the southwestern United States in California and Arizona, where it grows in the Sonoran Desert, Colorado Desert, and in chaparral of the coastal canyons of the Peninsular Ranges and the Channel Islands of California. Description ''Nicotiana clevelandii'' is a glandular and sparsely hairy annual herb producing a slender stem up to about in maximum height. The leaf blades may be long, the lower ones borne on petioles. The inflorescence bears white or green-tinged flowers with tubular throats around 2 centimeters long, their bases enclosed in pointed sepals which are unequal in length. The flower face is about a centimeter wide with five mostly white lobes. The fruit is a capsule about half a centimeter long. Uses This p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muilla Clevelandii
''Bloomeria clevelandii'' is a rare species of flowering plant that is known by the common name San Diego goldenstar. It is native to a strip of scrub and coastal grassland in San Diego County, California, and adjacent Baja California. Genetic analysis of several morphologically similar genera shows that this species, which was named ''Muilla clevelandii'' for several decades, is not very closely related to the other members of ''Muilla'' and is moved back to ''Bloomeria''. Its specific epithet ''clevelandii'' honors 19th-century San Diego-based plant collector and lawyer Daniel Cleveland. Description ''Bloomeria clevelandii'' is a perennial herb growing from a corm and producing 2 to 8 narrow leaves up to 15 centimeters long. The erect inflorescence arises from ground level and may be up to 70 centimeters tall. It is shaped like an umbel with up to 30 flowers borne on pedicels 2 or 3 centimeters long. The flower has six green-veined yellow tepal A tepal is one of the outer pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mimulus Clevelandii
''Diplacus clevelandii'' is an uncommon species of monkeyflower known by the common name Cleveland's bush monkeyflower. It was formerly known as ''Mimulus clevelandii''. Its specific epithet ''clevelandii'' honors 19th-century San Diego-based plant collector and lawyer Daniel Cleveland. Distribution It is endemic to the Peninsular Ranges of southern California and northern Baja California, where it grows in chaparral and oak woodland habitats, including in disturbed areas. It is a Vulnerable species on the California Native Plant Society Inventory of Rare and Endangered Plants. . accessed 26 March 2016. Description ''D ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horkelia Clevelandii
''Horkelia clevelandii'' is a species of flowering plant in the rose family known by the common name Cleveland's horkelia. It is native to the Peninsular Ranges of southern California and northern Baja California. This is a perennial herb forming clumps of long, fernlike leaves and erect stems. The leaves are up to 18 centimeters long and are made up of triangular to rounded leaflets, each toothed or lobed and covered in thin hairs. The narrow stems reach 10 to 50 centimeters in height and bear inflorescences of several flowers. Each flower has hairy, lance-shaped bractlets and pointed sepals. The narrow oval petals are white. The center of the flower contains ten stamens and up to 50 pistils. Its specific epithet In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ... ''clevelandii'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dodecatheon Clevelandii
''Primula clevelandii'', with the common name of Padre's shooting star, is a species of primrose. Its specific epithet ''clevelandii'' honors 19th-century San Diego-based plant collector and lawyer Daniel Cleveland. Description ''Primula clevelandii'' is spring deciduous, dying back to the ground after the rains cease. It has basal clumps of leaves up to 40 centimeters long. The flowers are magenta to deep lavender to white. They are nodding flowers each about an inch long on stems up to a foot tall. This species hybridizes with '' Primula hendersonii'', from which it can be distinguished by its green stem. Subspecies Named subspecies include: *''Primula clevelandii'' ssp. ''clevelandii —'' The autonymous subspecies. In Baja California, it is found in the northwestern part of the state at low elevations from Tijuana south to El Rosario. *''Primula clevelandii'' ssp. ''gracilis —'' Known commonly as the island shooting star. Found on the California Channel Islands ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chorizanthe Clevelandii
''Chorizanthe'' is a genus of plants in the buckwheat family known generally as spineflowers. These are small, squat, herbaceous plants with spiny-looking inflorescences of flowers. The flowers may be in shades of red or yellow to white. The bracts are pointed and sometimes tipped with a hooked awn, and the inflorescence often dries into a rounded, spiny husk. Spineflowers are found in western North America and South America. Name derivation: The word ''Chorizanthe'' comes from the Greek roots chorizo and anthos meaning "to divide," and "flower," thus meaning "divided flowers," but actually used in reference to the divided calyx. Selected species: * ''Chorizanthe angustifolia'' - narrowleaf spineflower * ''Chorizanthe biloba'' - twolobe spineflower * ''Chorizanthe blakleyi'' - Blakley's spineflower * '' Chorizanthe brevicornu'' - brittle spineflower * ''Chorizanthe breweri'' - San Luis Obispo spineflower * ''Chorizanthe corrugata'' - wrinkled spineflower * ''Chorizanthe cuspidat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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