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Chloracantha
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Chloracantha

Chloracantha is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the aster family, containing the single species Chloracantha spinosa. It is distributed in the southwestern and south-central United States (CA NV AZ UT NM TX OK LA), most of Mexico, and much of Central America. Its English language common names include spiny chloracantha, spiny aster, devilweed aster, and Mexican devilweed. In Spanish it is known as espina de agua, espinaza, and espinosilla.

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4 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Chloracantha lampra

speciesChloracantha lampra

Chloracantha hilleri

speciesChloracantha hilleri

Chloracantha angularis

speciesChloracantha angularis

Chloracantha garradunga

speciesChloracantha garradunga

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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 767222.