| Crocidium | |
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| Crocidium multicaule | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Subfamily: | Asteroideae |
| Tribe: | Senecioneae |
| Genus: | Crocidium Hook. |
| Type species | |
| Crocidium multicaule Hook. | |
Crocidium is a small North American genus of plants in the daisy family. Crocidium is native to western North America: British Columbia Washington, Idaho, Oregon, and California.
Crocidium can be found in varied habitats from grassland to woodland. It is a small annual, typically not exceeding 30 centimeters (12 inches) in height. It grows from a small patch of somewhat fleshy leaves at the ground and erects several very tall, very thin gangly stems, each of which is topped with a flower head. The flower head is made up of five to 13 lemon yellow ray florets, each up to a centimeter long. The center of the head is filled with tiny disc florets, in a similar shade of bright yellow. The fruits are fuzzy brown achenes only one or two millimeters long which turn gluey when wet.
- Species
- Crocidium multicaule Hook. - British Columbia, Washington, Idaho, Oregon, California
- Crocidium pugetense H.St.John - British Columbia, Washington
References
- Hooker, William Jackson. 1834. Flora Boreali-Americana 1(suppl.): 335 description in Latin, commentary and figure captions in English
- Hooker, William Jackson. 1834. Flora Boreali-Americana 1(suppl.): plate CXVIII line drawing of
- http://bonap.net/MapGallery/County/Crocidium%20multicaule.png
- Flora of North America, Vol. 20 Page 641 Crocidium Hooker, Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 335, plate 118. 1834.
- The Plant List search for Crocidium
- Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist search for Crocidium
