Taxon: Lygodesmia grandiflora (Nutt.) Torr. & A. Gray

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See also subordinate taxa:

• Lygodesmia grandiflora var. arizonica (no accessions)
• Lygodesmia grandiflora var. dianthopsis (1 accessions)
• Lygodesmia grandiflora var. doloresensis (no accessions)
• Lygodesmia grandiflora var. grandiflora (no accessions)

Common names:

• Arizona rush-pink   (Source: F Utah ed2 ) – English   [Lygodesmia grandiflora var. arizonica]
  
• Arizona skeleton-plant   (Source: L New Mex ) – English   [Lygodesmia grandiflora var. arizonica]
  
• Dolores rush-pink   (Source: F Utah ed2 ) – English   [Lygodesmia grandiflora var. doloresensis]
  
• showy rush-pink   (Source: F Utah ed2 ) – English
  
• western rush-pink   (Source: F Utah ed2 ) – English   [Lygodesmia grandiflora var. dianthopsis]
  

Economic importance:

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Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, Nevada, Utah

References:

• Cronquist, A. et al. 1972–. Intermountain flora.
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• Martin, W. C. & C. R. Hutchins. 1980. A flora of New Mexico.
• Tomb, A. S. 1980. Taxonomy of Lygodesmia (Asteraceae). Syst. Bot. Monogr. 1:1–51.
• Welsh, S. L. et al. 1993. A Utah flora.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Lygodesmia grandiflora.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Lygodesmia grandiflora.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Lygodesmia grandiflora.

Synonyms:

• Lygodesmia arizonica Tomb [≡ Lygodesmia grandiflora var. arizonica]
  
• Lygodesmia dianthopsis (D. C. Eaton) Tomb [≡ Lygodesmia grandiflora var. dianthopsis]
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• Lygodesmia doloresensis Tomb [≡ Lygodesmia grandiflora var. doloresensis]
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• Lygodesmia juncea var. dianthopsis D. C. Eaton [≡ Lygodesmia grandiflora var. dianthopsis]
  

Check other web resources for Lygodesmia grandiflora (Nutt.) Torr. & A. Gray:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• 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.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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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