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Tidestromia
Tidestromia is a genus with about six or seven species of annual or subshrub perennial plants native to desert and semi-arid regions of the western United States, Mexico and tropical America in the family Amaranthaceae. A common name of some species is honeysweet. The stems are reddish and contrast conspicuously with the silvery leaves. This genus is named for the botanist Ivar Tidestrom.
Species include:
6 branches of this genus, most-observed first
woolly tidestromia
speciesTidestromia lanuginosa
Honeysweet
speciesTidestromia suffruticosa
Tidestromia carnosa
speciesTidestromia carnosa
Tidestromia valdesiana
speciesTidestromia valdesiana
Tidestromia rhizomatosa
speciesTidestromia rhizomatosa
Tidestromia tenella
speciesTidestromia tenella
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 72398.