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Dicoria calliptera

Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Native range
Mexico (Sonora)
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Dicoria calliptera is a Mexican species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It has been found only in the State of Sonora, on hills near Adair Bay at the northern end of the Gulf of California, west of Puerto Peñasco.

Dicoria calliptera has spreading branches up to 50 cm (20 inches) long. Leaves are egg-shaped, very small, rarely more than 15 mm (0.6 inches) long. One plant can produce many small flower heads.

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Dicoria argentea · Desert twinbugs · Twinbugs

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Dicoria calliptera 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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