Isocoma tenuisecta

Taxobox
name = Burroweed

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image_caption = "Isocoma tenuisecta"
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Asterales
familia = Asteraceae
tribus = Astereae
genus = "Isocoma"
species = "I. tenuisecta"
binomial = "Isocoma tenuisecta"

"Isocoma tenuisecta", commonly called burroweed, shrine jimmyweed, or burrow goldenweed is a small, flowering perennial herb, native to the Sonoran Desert. It grows 1 to 3 feet tall, and has small yellow flowers growing at the top of woody stems. It flowers in September through November. The leaves are glandular and lobed. The old flowers turn dry and tan and remain on the plant.

Its range is limited to Southern Arizona, Southwestern New Mexico, and Northern Sonora Mexico.

Burroweed is poisonous to mammals. [ [http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~djw/pltx.cgi?QUERY=Isocoma+tenuisecta FDA Poisonous Plants Database.] ]

ynonyms

*Haplopappus fruticosus (Rose & Standl.) S. F. Blake
*Haplopappus tenuisectus (Greene) S. F. Blake ex L. D. Benson
*Isocoma fruticosus Rose & Standl.

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External links

* [http://www.fireflyforest.com/flowers/yellows/yellow31.html Wildflowers of Tucson, Arizona]
* [http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=250067016 Flora of North America]
* [http://plants.usda.gov/java/nameSearch?keywordquery=Isocoma+tenuisecta&mode=sciname&submit.x=12&submit.y=8 USDA Plants Database]
* [http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=503209 ITIS Report]

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