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Hymenoxys richardsonii (Colorado rubberweed)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Hymenoxys biennis is a North American species of flowering plant in the daisy family. It is native to the State of Utah in the western United States.
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Infraspecies

Hymenoxys richardsonii pumila
Hymenoxys richardsonii var. floribunda (Colorado rubberweed)
Hymenoxys richardsonii var. richardsonii (pingue rubberweed)

Attributes

Edible [1]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [1]  Hermaphrodite
Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Pollinators [1]  Insects, Lepidoptera
Structure [2]  Herb
Usage [1]  The latex obtained from the root is a potential commercial source of rubber; A yellow dye is obtained from the flowers;
Height [1]  8 inches (0.2 m)
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Protected Areas

Predators

Thomomys bottae (Botta's pocket gopher)[3]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 3Thomomys bottae, Cheri A. Jones and Colleen N. Baxter, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 742, pp. 1–14 (2004)
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0