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Rio Grande greenthread

Thelesperma nuecense

Also called Plains Greenthread

Rio Grande greenthread
Photo: (c) Brian Finzel, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Annual
Native range
Texas

About

Thelesperma nuecense, the Rio Grande greenthread, is a herbaceous annual flowering plant in the aster family. It is endemic to Texas.

Where it grows

Thelesperma nuecense is endemic to Texas, and grows at elevations of 0 to 200 meters from sea level on "disturbed sites on sands".

Other Thelesperma plants

Stiff greenthread · Longstalk greenthread · Hopi tea greenthread · Slender greenthread · Navajo tea · Greenthread

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Thelesperma nuecense 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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