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Longstalk greenthread

Thelesperma longipes

Longstalk greenthread
Photo: Patrick Alexander from Las Cruces, NM, CC0
Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Perennial
Native range
Arizona to Texas and Mexico

About

Thelesperma longipes, commonly called the longstalk greenthread, is a perennial herb or subshrub in the Asteraceae family. It is found from Arizona to northeast Mexico.

Where it grows

Thelesperma longipes grows in the United States (Arizona, Texas, New Mexico) and in Mexico (Coahuila, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas) at elevations of 500 to 2100 meters from sea level on openings in desert scrub or limestone ridges.

Other Thelesperma plants

Stiff greenthread · Hopi tea greenthread · Rio Grande greenthread · Slender greenthread · Navajo tea · Greenthread

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Thelesperma longipes 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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