
Rafinesquia, commonly known as plumeseed, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, native to the western United States and northwestern Mexico.
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Rafinesquia, commonly known as plumeseed, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, native to the western United States and northwestern Mexico.
The genus was named for polymath Constantine Samuel Rafinesque by botanist Thomas Nuttall in 1841.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).