Tobacco weed facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Atrichoseris platyphylla |
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| Atrichoseris platyphylla at Lake Mead |
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Cichorieae
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Microseridinae
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Atrichoseris
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A. platyphylla
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Atrichoseris is a genus of plants in the dandelion family. It contains only one known species, Atrichoseris platyphylla, known by the common names tobacco weed, parachute plant, and gravel ghost.
Atrichoseris platyphylla is native to the deserts of the southwestern United States (southern California, Arizona, Nevada and the southwestern corner of Utah) and northwestern Mexico (Sonora, Baja California). It produces a low basal rosette of rounded leaves patterned with gray-green and purple patches at ground level. It sends up a weedy-looking thin branching stem topped with a number of attractive, fragrant white or pink-tinged flowers, the layered ray florets rectangular and toothed.
Gravel ghosts in Death Valley National Park, March 2005.
See also
In Spanish: Atrichoseris platyphylla para niños
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