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Wright's snakeweed

Gutierrezia wrightii

Wright's snakeweed
Photo: Patrick Alexander from Las Cruces, NM, CC0
Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Annual
Native range
Arizona to New Mexico and N. Mexico
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Gutierrezia wrightii is a North American species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name Wright's snakeweed. It is native to the southwestern United States (Arizona and New Mexico) and northwestern Mexico (Sonora, Chihuahua, Sinaloa).

Gutierrezia wrightii is an annual herb up to 200 cm (79 in) in height. Leaves are narrowly lance-shaped, up to 7 cm (2.8 in) long. The plant produces numerous flower heads in loose arrays. Each head contains 30-60 disc florets with 8-19 yellow ray florets around the edge.

Other Gutierrezia plants

Arizona snakeweed · San Joaquin snakeweed · Lone Mesa snakeweed · Threadleaf snakeweed · San Pedro snakeweed · Broom snakeweed · Late snakeweed · Texas snakeweed · Snakeweed

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Gutierrezia wrightii 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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