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Conyza

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Also known as horseweed, butterweed, fleabane

Conyza (horseweed, butterweed or fleabane) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassMagnoliopsida
  4. OrderAsterales
  5. FamilyAsteraceae
Observations recorded3,672

via GBIF

Museum specimens

Specimen records
2,497
With media
1,382
Family
Asteraceae
Collections
IBUNAM, FCB-BUAP, INECOL, UNICACH, FCF-UANL, ENCB-IPN
Recorded in
Mexico

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Conyza (horseweed, butterweed or fleabane) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.

They are native to tropical and warm temperate regions throughout the world, and also north into cool temperate regions in North America and eastern Asia. The New World species of the genus are closely related to Erigeron (also known as fleabanes).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Conyza” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.