About Dicoria canescens A.Gray
Dicoria canescens is a North American flowering plant belonging to the Asteraceae family. It has several common names, including desert twinbugs and bugseed. It is a desert species native to the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, where it occurs in Sonora, Baja California, southern California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, southwestern Colorado, and northwestern New Mexico. This plant grows in thickets made up of many individual plants on desert sand. Its distinctive lower leaves are long and pointed, have sharp serrated edges, and are covered in a layer of thin white or gray hairs. Upper leaves are smaller and more rounded in shape. A single plant can produce multiple whitish flower heads that contain only disc florets, with no ray florets. Flower heads sometimes grow in tightly clustered pairs, which is the trait that gave the plant the common name "twinbugs".
