Thymophylla

Thymophylla is a genus of perennial flowering plants in the tribe Tageteae within the family Asteraceae.^[3][2][4] Pricklyleaf is a common name for plants in this genus.^[5]

Thymophylla
Thymophylla pentachaeta var. belenidium
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Asterales
Family:	Asteraceae
Subfamily:	Asteroideae
Tribe:	Tageteae
Subtribe:	Pectidinae
Genus:	Thymophylla Lag.[1]
Synonyms[2]
Gnaphalopsis DC. Hymenatherum sect. Heterochromea A.Gray Dyssodia sect. Aurantiacae Strother Hymenatherum sect. Aciphyllaea (Willd.) A.Gray Lowellia A.Gray Dyssodia sect. Hymenatherum (Cass.) Strother Aciphyllaea (DC.) A.Gray Hymenatherum sect. Gnaphalopsis (DC.) A.Gray Dyssodia sect. Gnaphalopsis (DC.) Strother Dyssodia sect. Aciphyllaea DC.

Seeds of Thymophylla tenuiloba

The generic name is derived from the Greek words θύμον (thymon), meaning "thyme", and φύλλον (phyllon), meaning "leaf".^[6]

Species^[2][7][8][9]

• Thymophylla acerosa (DC.) Strother – pricklyleaf dogweed, Texas dogweed - TX NM AZ UT NV
• Thymophylla aurantiaca (Brandegee) Rydb. - Puebla, Oaxaca
• Thymophylla aurea (A.Gray) Greene ex Britton – manyawn pricklyleaf - TX NM CO KS Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango
• Thymophylla concinna (A.Gray) Strother – Sonoran pricklyleaf - AZ (Pima County) Sonora
• Thymophylla gentryi (M.C.Johnst.) Strother - Durango
• Thymophylla gypsophila (B.L.Turner) Strother - Coahuila
• Thymophylla micropoides (DC.) Strother – woolly pricklyleaf - TX Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Hidalgo, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas
• Thymophylla mutica (M.C.Johnst.) Strother - Tamaulipas
• Thymophylla pentachaeta (DC.) Small – five-needle pricklyleaf - TX Chihuahua, Sonora, Jalisco, Nuevo León, Aguascalientes, Baja California, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas
• Thymophylla setifolia Lag. – Texas pricklyleaf - TX NM Aguascalientes, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Guanajuato, Hidalgo, Nuevo León, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas, Veracruz
• Thymophylla tenuifolia (Cass.) Rydb. - México State, Tlaxcala, Puebla, Coahuila, Durango, Hidalgo, Nuevo León, Zacatecas
• Thymophylla tenuiloba (DC.) Small – bristleleaf pricklyleaf - TX NM Coahuila, Nuevo León, Nayarit, Tamaulipas
• Thymophylla tephroleuca (S.F.Blake) Strother – ashy pricklyleaf, ashy dogweed - TX

formerly included^[2]

see Adenophyllum

• Thymophylla anomala - Adenophyllum anomalum
• Thymophylla neomexicana - Adenophyllum wriightii

References

1. "Genus: Thymophylla Lag". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 1996-09-17. Retrieved 2013-12-17.
2. Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist
3. Lagasca y Segura, Mariano. 1816. Genera et species plantarum, Elench. Pl. 25
4. Tropicos, Thymophylla Lag.
5. NRCS. "Thymophylla". PLANTS Database. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Retrieved 10 December 2015.
6. Strother, John L. "324. Thymophylla Lagasca, Gen. Sp. Pl. 25. 1816". Flora of North America. eFloras.org. Retrieved 2013-12-17.
7. Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution maps
8. Strother, J. L. 1969. Systematics of Dyssodia Cavanilles (Compositae: Tageteae). University of California Publications in Botany 48: 1–88.
9. Turner, B. L. 1996. The Comps of Mexico: A systematic account of the family Asteraceae, vol. 6. Tageteae and Athemideae. Phytologia Memoirs 10: i–ii, 1–22, 43–93

External links

• Media related to Thymophylla at Wikimedia Commons
• Data related to Thymophylla at Wikispecies
• Jepson Manual Treatment
• USDA Plants Profile