Taxon: Dasylirion wheeleri S. Watson

Common names:

• desert spoon   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  

Economic importance:

• View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico [s.], Texas [w.]
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona [s.]
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Chihuahua, Sonora [n.]

References:

• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
• Shreve, F. & I. L. Wiggins. 1964. Vegetation and flora of the Sonoran desert. (F SonorDes)

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Dasylirion wheeleri.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Dasylirion wheeleri. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for Dasylirion wheeleri S. Watson:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

• Fruit: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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