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Greeneocharis

Greeneocharis
Photo: Andrey Zharkikh from Salt Lake City, USA, CC BY 2.0
Family
Boraginaceae (Borage family)

About

Greeneocharis is a genus of flowering plants in the family Boraginaceae. There are two species, and it has a disjunct distribution in the western United States and northwestern Mexico in North America and western Argentina in southern South America. It is part of subtribe of Amsinckiinae.

It was once thought to be a either a subgenus or synonym of Cryptantha Lehm. ex G. Don, before being segregated out due to molecular phylogenetic analysis.

Where it grows

The genus is found in the United States (within the states of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming) and also in north western Mexico and southern and northwestern Argentina.

Other Greeneocharis plants

Greeneocharis circumscissa

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

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