Stenotus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. There are four species, all native to western North America.Stenotus. Flora of North America. They are known commonly as mock goldenweeds.Stenotus. USDA PLANTS.
These are perennial herbs sometimes forming mats or clumps a few centimeters high, producing erect stems up to about 30 centimeters tall but known to reach 60 centimeters at times. They grow from a taproot and branching caudex. The stems and foliage are hairless to quite woolly, and nonglandular to glandular-hairy. The leaf blades are linear to widely lance-shaped, white near the bases and green or grayish toward the tips. The flower head is solitary, paired, or in an array of up to four. There are yellow disc florets and usually yellow ray florets. The fruit has a pappus of fine white bristles.
The names of two related genera were coined because they are anagrams of the name Stenotus: NestotusRoberts, Roland P., Urbatsch, Lowell Edward, & Neubig, Kurt Maximilian. 2005. Sida 21(3): 1647-1655 and Tonestus.Nelson, Aven. 1904. Botanical Gazette 37(4): 262 in English
SpeciesBiota of North America Program 2013 county distribution maps Stenotus acaulis (Nutt.) Nutt. – stemless mock goldenweed, stemless goldenweed - CA NV AZ UT CO WY ID OR MT, Alberta Stenotus armerioides Nutt. – thrift mock goldenweed, thrifty goldenweed - AZ NM CO WY MT KS NE SD ND Saskatchewan Stenotus lanuginosus (A.Gray) Greene – woolly mock goldenweed, woolly goldenweed - CA NV OR WA ID MT Stenotus pulvinatus (Moran) G.L. Nesom - Baja CaliforniaMoran, Reid Venable. 1969. Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History 15(11): 161–163, f. 7 as Haploppappus pulvinatus
formerly includedFlann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist Several species once included in Stenotus are now considered to belong to other genera, including Ericameria, Erigeron, Nestotus, Oonopsis, Tonestus, and Townsendia.
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