Lagophylla Explained

Lagophylla is a small genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.^{[1] [2]} The genus is native to western North America, especially California.

These are annual plants with small yellow flowers which open during the night. The leaves are covered with dense hairs, hence the common name, hareleaf, and the scientific name, Lagophylla, which is derived from the Greek terms (; 'hare') and (; 'leaf').^{[3] [4]} Thomas Nuttall describes the leaves with their "abundant, soft, white, silky hairs" as resembling the foot of a hare, and says he named the genus "from the leaves being clad with long, soft hairs."

Species^{[5] [6] [7] [8]}

• Lagophylla diabolensis - California (Diablo Range)
• Lagophylla dichotoma - forked hareleaf - California (San Benito, Fresno, + Monterey Cos)
  • Lagophylla glandulosa - glandular hareleaf - California Lagophylla minor - lesser hareleaf - northern California
• Lagophylla ramosissima - branched hareleaf - from San Diego County to Montana + Washington

External links

• USDA Plants Profile
• Jepson eFlora treatment
• Jepson Manual (1993) treatment
• Genus account

Notes and References

1. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36318111#page/412/mode/1up Nuttall, Thomas. 1841. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, new series 7: 390–391
2. http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40001259 Tropicos, Lagophylla Nutt.
3. http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=117501 Flora of North America, 21 Page 260 Lagophylla Nuttall
4. Liddell, H.G. & Scott, R. (1940). A Greek-English Lexicon. Revised and augmented throughout by Sir Henry Stuart Jones with the assistance of Roderick McKenzie.Oxford: Clarendon Press.
5. http://dixon.iplantcollaborative.org/CompositaeWeb/Default.aspx?Page=AdvNameSearch Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist
6. http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/search?q=Lagophylla The Plant List search for Lagophylla
7. http://bonap.net/NAPA/TaxonMaps/Genus/County/Lagophylla Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution maps
8. http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=99213 Lagophylla diabolensis B.G. Baldwin, Jepson eFlora