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Dicoria canescens (desert twinbugs)

Synonyms: Dicoria canescens brandegeei; Dicoria canescens clarkei; Dicoria canescens var. canescens; Dicoria clarkei

Wikipedia Abstract

Dicoria canescens is a North American flowering plant in the daisy family known by several common names including desert twinbugs and bugseed. This is a desert plant of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, found in Sonora, Baja California, southern California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, southwestern Colorado, and northwestern New Mexico.
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Infraspecies

Attributes

Lifespan [1]  Annual
Structure [2]  Herb

Protected Areas

Predators

Phenacoccus dicoriae (dicoria mealybug)[3]
Uma inornata (Coachella Valley Fringe-toed Lizard)[4]

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
3Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
4Feeding time strategies of the fringe-toed lizard, Uma inornata, during breeding and non-breeding seasons, Richard D. Durtsche, Oecologia (1992) 89:85-89
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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