Oxytenia facts for kids

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Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	Asterales
Family:	Asteraceae
Tribe:	Heliantheae
Genus:	Oxytenia Nutt.
Binomial name
*Oxytenia acerosa* Nutt.
Synonyms
Iva acerosa (Nutt.) R.C.Jacks. Euphrosyne acerosa (Nutt.) Panero

Oxytenia, common name copperweed, is a genus of plants in the sunflower family.

There is only one known species, Oxytenia acerosa, native to the southwestern United States: California (Inyo Co), Nevada (Nye Co), Utah, western Colorado, Arizona, northwestern New Mexico.

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