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Taraxia
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Taraxia

Taraxia is a small genus of flowering plants in the family Onagraceae, native to western Canada and the western and west-central United States. Nuclear DNA evidence shows that it is sister to a clade containing all genera in the tribe Onagreae except for Oenothera, Eulobus, and Chylismia.

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4 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Sun Cup

speciesTaraxia ovata

tansyleaf evening primrose

speciesTaraxia tanacetifolia

diffuseflower evening primrose

speciesTaraxia subacaulis

Short-flower Suncup

speciesTaraxia breviflora

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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 68181.