Jamesia americana Torr. & A.Gray is a plant in the Hydrangeaceae family, order Cornales, kingdom Plantae. Not known to be toxic.

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Jamesia americana Torr. & A.Gray

Jamesia americana Torr. & A.Gray

Jamesia americana Torr. & A.Gray is a five-petaled perennial shrub found in western United States mountain regions.

Family
Genus
Jamesia
Order
Cornales
Class
Magnoliopsida
⚠️ Toxicity Note

Insufficient toxicity evidence; avoid direct contact and ingestion.

About Jamesia americana Torr. & A.Gray

Jamesia americana Torr. & A.Gray is a perennial shrub. Its distribution covers the southern Sierra Nevada, the Rocky Mountains, the Four Corners region, and southern Wyoming, where it is widespread in the Four Corners region and southern Wyoming. It can be told apart from the closely similar species Jamesia tetrapetala: most of J. americana's flower heads have five petals.

Photo: (c) Tim Guida, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Tim Guida · cc-by-nc

Taxonomy

Plantae Tracheophyta Magnoliopsida Cornales Hydrangeaceae Jamesia

More from Hydrangeaceae

Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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