Peucephyllum

Peucephyllum
Peucephyllum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Tribe: Bahieae
Genus: Peucephyllum
Species: P. schottii
Binomial name
Peucephyllum schottii
A. Gray[1]

Peucephyllum is a monotypic genus containing the single species Peucephyllum schottii, known commonly as the pygmy cedar or desert fir. This bushy shrub is neither a cedar nor a fir, but is in fact a member of the daisy family. It is leafy and evergreen and the foliage has glands which produce a resin. It flowers in yellow flower heads which have only disc florets. The fruits are woody, bristly seeds with a pappus. This plant is native to the desert areas of California, Arizona, and northern Mexico.

Of note, the species form is identical to the common creosote bush, small, minor and hemispherical; when flowering, the yellow flowers are identical in color and quantity to that of the creosote-(Larrea tridentata), so when encountered in mountainous washes, the plant can be overlooked. The green coloration of the two plants is also nearly identical.

References

  1. ^ UniProt Consortium. "Species Peucephyllum schottii (Schott's pygmycedar)" (HTML). http://beta.uniprot.org/taxonomy/176567. Retrieved 2008-04-13. 

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