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Mexican gumweed

Grindelia oxylepis

Mexican gumweed
Photo: (c) Oscar C. González Martínez, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Annual
Native range
SE. New Mexico to SW. Texas and NE. Mexico
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Grindelia oxylepis, the Mexican gumweed, is a North American species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. It is native to northern Mexico, in the States of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, San Luis Potosí, and Zacatecas. The natural range barely crosses the Río Grande into the United States, with a few populations in western Texas and southern New Mexico

Grindelia oxylepis grows in moist valleys and fields. It is an annual or biennial herb up to 55 cm (22 in) tall. The plant usually produces numerous flower heads in open, branching arrays. Each head has 20-30 ray flowers, surrounding a large number of tiny disc flowers.

Other Grindelia plants

Lonestar gumweed · Grindelia aggregata · Arizona gumweed · Grindelia buphthalmoides · Great Valley gumweed · Shrubby Gumweed · Spanish gold · Grindelia confusa · Reclined gumweed · Ash Meadows gumweed · Manyray gumweed · Grindelia greenmanii

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Grindelia oxylepis 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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