Xylorhiza (plant)

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

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|image_caption = Xylorhiza tortifolia

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|taxon = Xylorhiza (plant)

|authority = Nutt.

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• Machaeranthera sect. Xylorhiza (Nutt.) Cronquist & D.D. Keck

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Xylorhiza is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, known as woodyasters.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36318018#page/319/mode/1up Nuttall, Thomas. 1840. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, new series 7: 297–298] in English[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40027700 Tropicos, Xylorhiza Nutt.] These are daisylike wildflowers usually having blue to purple or white ray flowers with yellow centers of disc florets. Woodyasters are native to western North America.{{Cite eFloras | 1

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| volume = 20

| date = 2006

| last1 = Nesom | first1 = G.L. | author-link1 = Guy L. Nesom

| language = en

| access-date = 17 January 2023

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Species[http://bonap.net/NAPA/TaxonMaps/Genus/County/Xylorhiza Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution maps]

• Xylorhiza cognata - Mecca woodyaster - California (Imperial + Riverside Counties)
• Xylorhiza confertifolia - Henrieville woodyaster - Utah (Kane, Wayne, + Garfield Counties)
• Xylorhiza cronquistii - Cronquist's woodyaster - Utah (Kane + Garfield Counties)
• Xylorhiza frutescens - Baja California
• Xylorhiza glabriuscula - smooth woodyaster - Wyoming, Utah (Daggett County), Colorado (Routt + Moffat Counties), Montana (Carbon County), South Dakota (Harding, Butte, Fall River Counties)
• Xylorhiza orcuttii - Orcutt's aster - California (Imperial + San Diego Counties)
• Xylorhiza panamintensis - Death Valley National Park
• Xylorhiza tortifolia - Mojave woodyaster - California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona
• Xylorhiza venusta - charming woodyaster - Utah, Colorado, New Mexico (Colfax County)
• Xylorhiza wrightii - Big Bend woodyaster - western Texas, Chihuahua