Rafinesquia

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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GENUS

KingdomPlantae
PhylumTracheophyta
ClassMagnoliopsida
OrderAsterales
FamilyAsteraceae

Observations recorded10,778

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Museum specimens

Specimen records: 81
With media: 71
Family: Asteraceae
Collections: CAS, IBUNAM, LOB, ASU, DAV, NY
Recorded in: Mexico, United States

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: taxon
Parent taxon: Asteraceae
Image: Rafinesquia neomexicana 2.jpg

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taxon name: Rafinesquia
taxon rank: genus
Commons category: Rafinesquia
GRIN URL: npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomygenus.aspx?id=10232
topic's main category: Category:Rafinesquia
taxon common name: plumeseed

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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.

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