''Tetraneuris torreyana'' is a North American species of plants in the
sunflower family, known by the common name Torrey's four-nerve daisy. It grows in the western United States, in extreme southern
Montana
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New Mexico
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Utah
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Colorado
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Wyoming
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''Tetraneuris torreyana'' is a perennial herb up to tall. It forms a branching underground
caudex
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sometimes producing as many as 40 unbranched, above-ground stems. One plant can produce as many as 40 flower heads. Each head has 7–14 yellow ray flowers surrounding 25-150 yellow disc flowers.
Flora of North America, ''Tetraneuris torreyana'' (Nuttall) Greene, 1898.
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References
torreyana
Flora of the Western United States
Endemic flora of the United States
Plants described in 1841
Taxa named by Edward Lee Greene
Taxa named by Thomas Nuttall
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