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Nothocalais cuspidata
Nothocalais cuspidata, the prairie false dandelion, is a herbaceous perennial with yellow flowers and long slender leaves. It is a member of the Asteraceae family and is native to the great plains. N.cuspidata faces habitat loss from the increasing fragmentation of the great plains.
Prairie false dandelion is also called: sharppoint prairie dandelion, microseris, wavy-leaf prairie-dandelion, sharppoint microseris, and microséris cuspidé.
N. cuspidata inhabits dry, well drained soils in open areas or grasslands along with gravely hillsides. They span from Canada to Texas and from New Mexico to Illinois, they exist in isolated populations in fragmented habitats. Habitats like these typically occur on bluffs or steeps slopes that border a river.
Sierra foothill silverpuffs · Coastal silverpuffs · San Joaquin silverpuffs · Douglas' silverpuffs · Elegant silverpuffs · Microseris heterocarpa · Cutleaf silverpuffs · Yam Daisy · Nodding microseris · Marsh silverpuffs · Yam Daisy · Sylvan scorzonella
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Nothocalais cuspidata 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.
