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| Dicoria canescens | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Division: | Magnoliophyta |
| Class: | Magnoliopsida |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Genus: | Dicoria |
| Species: | D. canescens |
| Binomial name | |
| Dicoria canescens A. Gray | |
Dicoria canescens is a flowering plant in the daisy family known by several common names including desert twinbugs and bugseed. This is a plant of the United States' desert southwest, especially the Mojave Desert. This is a plant which forms bushes or thickets of many individuals in the desert sand. The distinctive lower leaves are long, pointed, sharply toothed, and covered in a coat of thin white or gray hairs. The upper leaves are smaller and more rounded. The flowers sometimes grow in pairs of rounded buds, a characteristic which is the origin of the common name "twinbugs".
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References
- Philip A. Munz, Diane L. Renshaw, Phyllis M. Faber (2004). Introduction to California Desert Wildflowers. University of California Press. p. 235. ISBN 0520236327.
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