Nahuatlea hypoleuca (DC.) V.A.Funk is a plant in the Asteraceae family, order Asterales, kingdom Plantae. Not known to be toxic.

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Nahuatlea hypoleuca (DC.) V.A.Funk

Nahuatlea hypoleuca (DC.) V.A.Funk

Nahuatlea hypoleuca, the shrubby bullseye, is a North American shrub in the Asteraceae family native to Mexico and Texas.

Family
Genus
Nahuatlea
Order
Asterales
Class
Magnoliopsida

About Nahuatlea hypoleuca (DC.) V.A.Funk

Nahuatlea hypoleuca, commonly called the shrubby bullseye, is a North American plant species belonging to the Asteraceae family. It is native to northern Mexico, ranging from Coahuila east to Tamaulipas and extending south as far as Oaxaca. It also grows just north of the Río Grande in the U.S. state of Texas. This species is a shrub, with stems and the undersides of its leaves covered in thick, white woolly hairs. Its flower heads are arranged in tight clusters, and each head holds many whitish flowers with lobed corollas. Nahuatlea hypoleuca grows in gravel and caliche soils within desert scrub vegetation.

Photo: (c) Jesús Alejandro Salazar Ortiz, all rights reserved, uploaded by Jesús Alejandro Salazar Ortiz

Taxonomy

Plantae Tracheophyta Magnoliopsida Asterales Asteraceae Nahuatlea

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

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