Malacothrix californica: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Asterales
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Genus
- Malacothrix
- Species
- Malacothrix californica
- Scientific Name
- Malacothrix californica
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Malacothrix californica
Malacothrix californica is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name California desertdandelion. It is native to California, the western margin of Arizona and Baja California, where it may be found especially in the South Coast, Transverse and Peninsular Ranges and the western Mojave Desert.
Involucres (8–)10–15 × 5–6 mm. Phyllaries usually 20–26+ in 2-3+ series, (midstripes often reddish) lanceolate to lance-linear or subulate, unequal, hyaline margins 0.1–0.5 mm wide, abaxial faces (of outermost, at least) shaggily piloso-hirsute to arachnose (at least proximally).
...Malacothrix californica in languages:
- English
- California desertdandelion
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Malacothrix californica
- Malacothrix clevelandii
- Malacothrix coulteri
- Malacothrix fendleri
- Malacothrix floccifera
- Malacothrix foliosa
- Malacothrix glabrata
- Malacothrix incana
- Malacothrix incana × foliosa
- Malacothrix indecora
- Malacothrix junakii
- Malacothrix phaeocarpa
- Malacothrix saxatilis
- Malacothrix similis
- Malacothrix sonchoides
- Malacothrix sonorae
- Malacothrix squalida
- Malacothrix stebbinsii
- Malacothrix torreyi
- Malacothrix xanti



























































































































































