Bahia (plant) explained

Bahia is a small genus of perennial flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. The common name is also bahia. It is named in honor of the Spanish botanist Juan Francisco Bahí (1775–1841).^[1]

The genus has a disjunct distribution in the southwestern United States, northern Mexico, Guatemala, and Chile, and is found in dry areas.^[2]

Species^[3]

• Bahia absinthifolia – hairyseed bahia - USA (Arizona Utah New Mexico Texas); Mexico (Tamaulipas, Nuevo León, Coahuila, Chihuahua, San Luis Potosí, Querétaro, Hidalgo, Durango, Aguascalientes)
• Bahia ambrosioides - Chile incl. Juan Fernández Islands
• Bahia aristata - Mexico
• Bahia autumnalis - Nuevo León
• Bahia bigelovii – Bigelow's bahia - western Texas, Coahuila
• Bahia biternata – slim-lobe bahia - Arizona, New Mexico, Chihuahua
• Bahia depauperata - Guatemala
• Bahia glandulosa - Chihuahua, Durango
• Bahia pedata – blunt-scale bahia - Texas, New Mexico, Durango
• Bahia pringlei - Coahuila, Hidalgo, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Veracruz
• Bahia schaffneri - Nuevo León, Hidalgo, San Luis Potosí, Zacatecas
• Bahia xylopoda - Hidalgo, Jalisco, Puebla, San Luis Potosí

Notes and References

1. Genaust, Helmut (1976). Etymologisches Wörterbuch der botanischen Pflanzennamen
2. Ellison, W.L. 1964. A systematic study of the genus Bahia (Compositae). Rhodora 66: 67-86, 178-311.
3. http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/search?q=Bahia The Plant List search for Bahia