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Plumeseeds
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Plumeseeds

Rafinesquia

Rafinesquia, commonly known as plumeseed, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, native to the western United States and northwestern Mexico.

The genus was named for polymath Constantine Samuel Rafinesque by botanist Thomas Nuttall in 1841.

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2 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Desert Chicory

speciesRafinesquia neomexicana

California chicory

speciesRafinesquia californica

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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 53194.