Helenium thurberi

Helenium thurberi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Tribe: Helenieae
Genus: Helenium
Species: H. thurberi
Binomial name
Helenium thurberi
A.Gray 1883

Helenium thurberi is a North American plant in the Sunflower Family, commonly known as Thurber’s sneezeweed.[1] It is native to Mexico (Baja California Sur, Sinaloa, Nayarit, Chihuahua) and the southwestern United States (Arizona).[2][3]

Helenium thurberi is an annual herb up to 100 cm (39.5 in) tall, with small wings running down the sides of the stems. Leaves are lance-shaped. One plant can produce up to 120 flower heads, in a branching array. Each head has an egg-shaped or conical disc that may contain 500 or more minuscule disc flowers each 1.0–1.3 mm (0.039–0.051 in) across, each yellow toward the bottom but brown or reddish-brown toward the tip. There are no ray flowers.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Flora of North America, Helenium thurberi A. Gray, 1883. Thurber’s sneezeweed
  2. Turner, B. L. 2013. The comps of Mexico. A systematic account of the family Asteraceae (chapter 11: tribe Helenieae). Phytologia Memoirs 16: 1–100
  3. Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map
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