Family | ASTERACEAE |
Genus species | Tetraneuris argentea Greene trib. Helenieae |
Bibliography | Pittonia 3: 269 (1898) |
Native Range | Arizona to New Mexico |
Primary Biome | Temperate |
Habitat | rocks |
Altitude | 1500-3000m |
Description | basal leaves spathulate to oblanceolate, densely pilose, stem leaves oblanceolate to linear, entire, capitula 1-7 in corymb, involucre densely hirsute, ligules 10-17mm long |
Size | 5-25cm |
Color | yellow |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | perennial |
Cultivation | sunny rock crevices, protection against winter wet alpine house, poor, drained soil, sun |
Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1 month, 10-16°C cuttings in late spring and late summer |
Synonyms | Actinea argentea Kuntze Actinea leptoclada Kuntze Actinea scaposa var. trinervata (Greene) Kittel Actinella argentea A.Gray Hymenoxys argentea (A.Gray) K.F.Parker Hymenoxys argentea var. thoreauensis N.D.Atwood & al. Ptilepida argentea A.Heller Tetraneuris argentea var. thoreauensis (N.D.Atwood & al.) Bierner & B.L.Turner Tetraneuris formosa Greene Tetraneuris leptoclada Greene Tetraneuris trinervata Greene |
Territory | 7 Northern America 76 Southwestern U.S.A. (ARI Arizona) 77 South-Central U.S.A. (NWM New Mexico) |