Gutierrezia californica: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Asterales
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Genus
- Gutierrezia
- Species
- Gutierrezia californica
- Scientific Name
- Gutierrezia californica
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Gutierrezia californica
Gutierrezia californica is a North American species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common names San Joaquin snakeweed and California matchweed. It is native to California and Arizona in the United States and Baja California in Mexico. It grows in sunny sandy or rocky areas in grasslands, scrub, or open woodlands.
This is a small subshrub reaching up to about half a meter (20 inches) in height. It grows clumpy or gangly and generally erect stems in shades of gray and red which are lined with small linear green leaves.
At the end of each branch of the stem is an inflorescence of one to three small flower heads just a few millimeters wide. The head contains several yellow disc florets with long, protruding styles and several yellow ray florets around the edge.
...Gutierrezia californica in languages:
- English
- California matchweed
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Gutierrezia argyrocarpa
- Gutierrezia arizonica
- Gutierrezia baccharoides
- Gutierrezia californica
- Gutierrezia conoidea
- Gutierrezia dracunculoides
- Gutierrezia dunalii
- Gutierrezia elegans
- Gutierrezia espinosae
- Gutierrezia gayana
- Gutierrezia gilliesii
- Gutierrezia grandis
- Gutierrezia isernii
- Gutierrezia mandonii
- Gutierrezia megalocephala
- Gutierrezia microcephala
- Gutierrezia petradoria
- Gutierrezia pomariensis
- Gutierrezia ramulosa
- Gutierrezia repens
- Gutierrezia resinosa
- Gutierrezia sarothrae
- Gutierrezia sericocarpa
- Gutierrezia serotina
- Gutierrezia solbrigii
- Gutierrezia spathulata
- Gutierrezia sphaerocephala
- Gutierrezia texana
- Gutierrezia wrightii





























































































































































