Hazardia rosarica

Hazardia rosarica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Tribe: Astereae
Genus: Hazardia
Species: H. rosarica
Binomial name
Hazardia rosarica
(Moran) W.D.Clark 1979
Synonyms[1]
  • Haplopappus rosaricus Moran 1969

Hazardia rosarica is a Mexican species of shrub in the daisy family.

The plant is endemic to Mexico, found only in the State of Baja California in northwestern Mexico.[2] It grows on the Pacific side of the Baja California Peninsula.

Description

Hazardia rosarica is a shrub up to 90 cm (3 feet) tall with lemon-scented foliage. It has several stems arising from a woody underground caudex.

The plant produces numerous flower heads each head with 12-30 yellow disc flowers but no ray flowers.[3]

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