Flora of North America species comparison

The green links below add additional plants to the comparison table. Blue links lead to other Web sites.
enable glossary links

Adenophyllum porophylloides

Adenophyllum wrightii

San Felipe dogweed, San Felipe dyssodia

Wright's dogweed
Habit Perennials or subshrubs, 20–50+ cm.
Leaves

pinnately lobed, 15–40 mm, lobes 3–5, linear to cuneate or oblanceolate (oil-glands at base of each lobe and subterminal in tips).

Peduncles

20–80 mm.

Involucres

obconic, 10–15 mm.

Ray florets

10–14;

corollas yellow, becoming red-orange;

tubes ca. 2 mm, laminae 6 × 2 mm.

Disc florets

25–40;

corollas yellow-orange, 7–8 mm.

Phyllaries

12–20, lanceolate, separating in fruit.

Calyculi

of 12–16 subulate bractlets 3–8 mm (bearing glands).

Cypselae

5 mm;

pappi of 8–12 scales 7–8 mm, each comprising 7–11 basally connate bristles.

2n

= 26.

Adenophyllum porophylloides

Adenophyllum wrightii
Phenology Flowering spring and fall.
Habitat Alluvial fans and rocky slopes in deserts
Elevation 0–1200 m (0–3900 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; CA; NV; Mexico (Baja California, Sonora)
[WildflowerSearch map]
[BONAP county map]
from FNA
AZ; NM; Mexico
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Varieties 2 (1 in the flora).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 21, p. 239. FNA vol. 21, p. 239.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Pectidinae > Adenophyllum Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Pectidinae > Adenophyllum
Sibling taxa
A. cooperi, A. wrightii
A. cooperi, A. porophylloides
Subordinate taxa
A. wrightii var. wrightii
Synonyms Dyssodia porophylloides Dyssodia neomexicana
Name authority (A. Gray) Strother: Sida 11: 377. (1986) A. Gray: Smithsonian Contr. Knowl. 5(6): 92. (1853)
Web links 
Unless otherwise noted, all data comes from the online version of the Flora of North America, who have made most of their content available via a Creative Commons license (CC BY 4.0).



Type/paste one or more Latin names into the boxes above; matching taxa will show up below the box as you type. You can use the up/down arrow keys to move through the list.

(If the plant you're looking for doesn't show up in the auto-complete list, that means it either isn't described in Flora of North America yet, or it's listed under a synonym. And please note that Flora of North America is still missing several plant families, including Apiaceae, Boraginaceae, and Polemoniaceae.)

Choose a data source: Flora of North America

The species comparison tool is brought to you by:
Northwest Wildflowers