Corispermum

Corispermum
Corispermum
Corispermum intermedium
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Core eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Amaranthaceae
Subfamily: Corispermoideae
Genus: Corispermum
L.
Species

60-65: See text

Corispermum is a genus of plants in the goosefoot family. Common names given to members of the genus involve bugseed, tickseed, and tumbleweed. In general, these are erect annual plants with flat, thin leaves and topped with inflorescences of flowers with long bracts. Bugseeds are native to North America and Eurasia, but little is known about their taxonomy and distribution.

Species include:

  • Corispermum americanum - American bugseed
  • Corispermum hyssopifolium - tumbleweed,[1] tumble-weed;[2] this species forms a tumbleweed
  • Corispermum ochotense - Russian bugseed
  • Corispermum pallasii - Siberian bugseed

External links

References

  1. ^ Albert Brown Lyons (1900). Plant Names, Scientific and Popular: Including in the Case of Each Plant the Correct Botanical Name in Accordance with the Reformed Nomenclature, Together with Botanical and Popular Synonyms. Nelson, Baker & Co.. pp. 630. http://books.google.com/books?id=bDgXAAAAYAAJ.  page 117
  2. ^ Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913). An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions: From Newfoundland to the Parallel of the Southern Boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean Westward to the 102d Meridian. 2. C. Scribner's sons. http://books.google.com/books?id=RZUCAAAAYAAJ.  page 21



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  • Corispermum navicula — ID 21526 Symbol Key CONA4 Common Name crescent bugseed Family Chenopodiaceae Category Dicot Division Magnoliophyta US Nativity Native to U.S. US/NA Plant Yes State Distribution CO Growth Habit Forb/herb Duration …   USDA Plant Characteristics

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