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Glandular Big Tarweed
Blepharizonia laxa
Blepharizonia laxa is a California species of tarweed known by the common name glandular big tarweed.
From the article Blepharizonia laxa on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Blepharizonia laxa is similar to its relative, B. plumosa. It tends, however, to be yellow-green rather than gray-green, and covered with many more stalked glands.
Range & habitat
The plant is endemic to central California, where it grows in the Central Coast Ranges and adjacent areas of the southern San Francisco Bay Area and Central Valley, from Contra Costa County to as far south as San Luis Obispo County. It is native to California chaparral and woodlands habitats.
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
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 58799.