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Bushy Goldentop
Euthamia leptocephala
Euthamia leptocephala, (commonly known as the narrowhead goldentop, Mississippi Valley goldentop, or bushy goldentop) is a North American species of plants in the family Asteraceae. It is native to the south-central United States, in the lower Mississippi Valley and the Coastal Plain of the Gulf of Mexico, from Texas to west-central Georgia and north as far as southern Illinois.
From the article Euthamia leptocephala on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Euthamia leptocephala is a perennial herb or subshrub up to 100 cm (40 inches) tall. Leaves are alternate, simple, long and narrow, up to 8 cm (3.2 inches) long. One plant can produce many small, yellow flower heads flat-topped arrays. Each head has 7-14 ray florets surrounding 3-6 disc florets.
Galls. This species is host to the following insect induced galls:
Asteromyia euthamiae Gagné, 1968 forms black spots on leaf blades Epiblema desertana (Zeller, 1875) causes stem swelling. external link to gallformers
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 162907.