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Tauschia
Sign in to saveTauschia is a genus of flowering plants in the carrot family which are known as umbrellaworts. These are perennial plants with taproots or tubers and foliage generally resembling that of relatives parsley and carrot. Tauschia are native to the Americas.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderApiales
- FamilyApiaceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 74
- With media
- 50
- Family
- Apiaceae
- Collections
- INECOL, FC-UNAM, IBUNAM, CAS, SD, SBBG
- Recorded in
- Mexico, United States
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Apiaceae
- Named after
- Ignaz Friedrich Tausch
- Image
- Tauschiaarguta.jpg
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- taxon name
- Tauschia
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Tauschia
- taxon common name
- umbrellawort
- Commons category
- Tauschia
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Tauschia is a genus of flowering plants in the carrot family which are known as umbrellaworts. These are perennial plants with taproots or tubers and foliage generally resembling that of relatives parsley and carrot. Tauschia are native to the Americas.
Selected species: Tauschia arguta – southern umbrellawort Tauschia glauca – glaucus umbrellawort Tauschia hartwegii – Hartweg's umbrellawort Tauschia howellii – Howell's umbrellawort Tauschia kelloggii – Kellogg's umbrellawort Tauschia parishii – Parish's umbrellawort Tauschia stricklandii – Strickland's umbrellawort Tauschia tenuissima – Leiberg's umbrellawort Tauschia texana – Texas umbrellawort
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tauschia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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