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Rubberweeds
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Rubberweeds

Hymenoxys

Hymenoxys (rubberweed or bitterweed) is a genus of plants in the sunflower family, native to North and South America. It was named by Alexandre Henri Gabriel de Cassini in 1828.

Plants of this genus are toxic to sheep due to the presence of the sesquiterpene lactone hymenoxon.

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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 49038.