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Nothocalais
Nothocalais is a genus of North American flowering plants in the tribe Cichorieae within the family Asteraceae. There are known generally as false dandelions or false agoseris.
As of 2023 all four of these species are classified in Nothocalis by the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS database (PLANTS) and Flora of North America (FNA). Only Nothocalais nigrescens is in Nothocalis according to World Flora Online (WFO) However, Plants of the World Online (POWO) synonymizes genus Nothocalais into Microseris.
4 branches of this genus, most-observed first
sagebrush false-dandelion
speciesNothocalais troximoides
prairie false dandelion
speciesNothocalais cuspidata
alpine lake false-dandelion
speciesNothocalais alpestris
Black Hairy False-dandelion
speciesNothocalais nigrescens
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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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 54049.