Crocidium (plant)

Crocidium is a small North American genus of plants in the daisy family.[1][2] Crocidium is native to western North America: British Columbia Washington, Idaho, Oregon, and California.[3]

Crocidium
Crocidium multicaule
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Tribe: Senecioneae
Genus: Crocidium
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Type species
Crocidium multicaule
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Crocidium can be found in varied habitats from grassland to woodland. It is a small annual, typically not exceeding 30 centimeters (12 inches) in height. It grows from a small patch of somewhat fleshy leaves at the ground and erects several very tall, very thin gangly stems, each of which is topped with a flower head. The flower head is made up of five to 13 lemon yellow ray florets, each up to a centimeter long. The center of the head is filled with tiny disc florets, in a similar shade of bright yellow. The fruits are fuzzy brown achenes only one or two millimeters long which turn gluey when wet.[4]

Species[5][6]

References
  1. Hooker, William Jackson. 1834. Flora Boreali-Americana 1(suppl.): 335 description in Latin, commentary and figure captions in English
  2. Hooker, William Jackson. 1834. Flora Boreali-Americana 1(suppl.): plate CXVIII line drawing of
  3. http://bonap.net/MapGallery/County/Crocidium%20multicaule.png
  4. Flora of North America, Vol. 20 Page 641 Crocidium Hooker, Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 335, plate 118. 1834.
  5. The Plant List search for Crocidium
  6. Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist search for Crocidium
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