Hymenoxys
Genus of flowering plants
Hymenoxys (rubberweed or bitterweed ) is a genus of plants in the sunflower family , native to North and South America .[ 3] [ 1] [ 4] It was named by Alexandre Henri Gabriel de Cassini in 1828.[ 1]
Plants of this genus are toxic to sheep due to the presence of the sesquiterpene lactone hymenoxon .[ 5] [ 6] [ 7]
Species[ 2] [ 8] [ 9] [ 10] [ 11]
Hymenoxys ambigens - Pinaleno Mountain rubberweed - Arizona New Mexico
Hymenoxys anthemoides - Rio Grande do Sul , Rio de Janeiro , Paraguay , Uruguay , Argentina
Hymenoxys biennis - Utah
Hymenoxys bigelovii - Utah Arizona New Mexico
Hymenoxys brachyactis - East View rubberweed - New Mexico
Hymenoxys brandegeei - Arizona New Mexico Colorado
Hymenoxys cabrerae - Argentina
Hymenoxys californica - California , Baja California
Hymenoxys chrysanthemoides - San Luis Potosí , Veracruz , Zacatecas , México State , Puebla , Oaxaca , Hidalgo
Hymenoxys cooperi - Cooper's rubberweed - California Nevada Arizona Utah Idaho Oregon New Mexico
Hymenoxys grandiflora - New Mexico Colorado Wyoming Montana Utah Idaho
Hymenoxys helenioides - intermountain rubberweed - Arizona New Mexico Colorado Utah
Hymenoxys hoopesii - owl claws - New Mexico Colorado Wyoming Montana Utah Idaho Oregon Nevada California
Hymenoxys insignis - Nuevo León , Coahuila , Chihuahua
Hymenoxys jamesii - Arizona
Hymenoxys lemmonii - Lemmon's rubberweed - Arizona Oregon Nevada California
Hymenoxys multiflora - Texas New Mexico
Hymenoxys mutica - California
Hymenoxys odorata - bitter rubberweed - California Arizona New Mexico Texas Oklahoma Colorado Kansas Maine South Carolina Alabama , Baja California , Baja California Sur , Sonora , Chihuahua , Coahuila , Durango , Nuevo León , San Luis Potosí , Tamaulipas
Hymenoxys quinquesquamata - rincon rubberweed - Arizona New Mexico
Hymenoxys richardsonii - pingue rubberweed, Colorado rubberweed - Alberta , Saskatchewan , Montana Idaho Wyoming Utah Colorado New Mexico Arizona Texas Nebraska North Dakota Nevada
Hymenoxys robusta - Bolivia , Argentina , Peru
Hymenoxys rusbyi - Arizona New Mexico
Hymenoxys subintegra - Arizona rubberweed - Arizona Utah
Hymenoxys texana - prairie dawn - Texas
Hymenoxys tweediei - Argentina
Hymenoxys vaseyi - Texas New Mexico
formerly included[ 11]
References
^ a b c Tropicos, Hymenoxys Cass.
^ a b "Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist" . Archived from the original on 2014-12-02. Retrieved 2014-12-02 .
^ Cassini, Alexandre Henri Gabriel de, in Cuvier, F. 1828. Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles [Second edition] 55: 278–279 in French
^ Flora of North America, Bitterweed, rubberweed, Hymenoxys Cassini 1828.
^ Everitt, J.H.; Lonard, R.L.; Little, C.R. (2007). Weeds in South Texas and Northern Mexico . Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press. ISBN 0-89672-614-2
^ Pfeiffer, F. A. and M. C. Calhoun. (1987). Effects of environmental, site, and phenological factors on hymenoxon content of bitterweed, Hymenoxys odorata . Journal of Animal Science 65 1553-62.
^ Texas A&M University, Toxicity: H. odorata Archived 2007-07-03 at the Wayback Machine
^ Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution maps
^ Turner, B. L. 2013. The comps of Mexico. A systematic account of the family Asteraceae (chapter 11: tribe Helenieae). Phytologia Memoirs 16: 1–100.
^ The Plant List search for Hymenoxys
^ a b The Plant List, search for Hymenoxys
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