Guardiola platyphylla, the Apache plant, is a North American species of plants in the family Asteraceae, native to Mexico and the southwestern United States. It is found in northwestern Mexico (Chihuahua, Sinaloa, and Sonora) and the southwestern United States (southern Arizona).Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution mapShreve, F. & I. L. Wiggins. 1964. Vegetation and Flora of the Sonoran Desert. Stanford University Press, StanfordSEINet, Southwestern Biodiversity, Arizona chapter, Guardiola platyphylla A. Gray photos, description, distribution map
Guardiola platyphylla is a branching perennial herb or subshrub up to tall. Leaves are opposite, thick and leathery, up to long. One plant will produce several flower heads in a flat-topped array. Each head contains 1-5 white ray flowers surrounding 3-20 white disc flowers.Flora of North America, Guardiola platyphylla A. Gray 1853Gray, Asa. 1853. Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge 5(6): 91. diagnosis in Latin, description and commentary in English
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External links Photo of herbarium specimen at Missouri Botanical Garden, collected in Sonora in 2011 Andrew Hodgson, Andy Down Under, Trees, Shrubs & Ferns of the Sonoran Desert photos of several species including Guardiola platyphylla