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Chaenactis lacera

Chaenactis lacera
Photo: (c) Alan Rockefeller, some rights reserved (CC BY), CC BY 4.0
Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Annual
Native range
Mexico (Baja California)

About

Chaenactis lacera is a Mexican species of flowering plants in the aster family. It grows on the Baja California Peninsula in northwestern Mexico, the States of Baja California (sometimes erroneously called Baja California Norte) and Baja California Sur.

Chaenactis lacera is a branching annual sometimes exceeding 30 cm (12 inches) in height. Flower heads are numerous, with white disc florets but no ray florets.

Other Chaenactis plants

Southern Sierra pincushion · White pincushion · Pebble pincushion · Cusick's pincushion · Douglas' dustymaiden · Evermann's pincushion · Pincushion flower · Esteve's Pincushion · Yellow pincushion · Bighead dustymaiden · Nevada dustymaiden · John Day's pincushion

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Chaenactis lacera by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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