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Goldeneye

Aldama

Goldeneye
Photo: Juan Carlos Fonseca Mata, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Perennial

About

Aldama is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. The native range of this genus is tropical & sub-tropical America. The genus was originally described to include one (later two) species of subtribe Helianthinae that were characterized by having pales that tightly enclosed the cypselae (achenes) (see Feddema, 1971).

It was first published and described in P.de La Llave & J.M.de Lexarza, Nov. Veg. Descr. 1: 14 in 1824.

Where it grows

It is native to (countries of): Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, northern and central Chile, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, United States (in the states of Arizona, New Mexico and Texas) and Venezuela.

Other Aldama plants

Aldama linearis · Aldama media · Aldama sodiroi · Goldeneye · Goldeneye · Goldeneye

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Aldama (plant) by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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