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Dittrichia
Genus of flowering plants / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dittrichia is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family. Its species were formerly included in the genus Inula.[3][4][5][6]
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Dittrichia | |
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Dittrichia viscosa | |
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Asterales |
Family: | Asteraceae |
Subfamily: | Asteroideae |
Tribe: | Inuleae |
Genus: | Dittrichia Greuter, 1973 |
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Dittrichia viscosa | |
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Dittrichia is named after German botanist Manfred Dittrich (1934-2016), the previous director of the herbarium at the Botanical Garden in Berlin.[7]
- Species[1]
- Dittrichia graveolens, stinkwort, sticky stinkweed - Mediterranean region (southern Europe[8] + North Africa) plus southwest Asia as far east as Pakistan; naturalized in California, Asia, Africa, Australia, and other places[9][10]
- Dittrichia viscosa, false yellowhead, yellow fleabane - Mediterranean region (southern Europe + North Africa)