A suffrutescent Helianthus from Los Angeles County, California
Private Researcher, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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- Keywords
- suffrutescent, Helianthus annuus
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- © 2014 Baznekian
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- 2014. A suffrutescent Helianthus from Los Angeles County, California. PeerJ PrePrints 2:e450v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.450v1
Abstract
A suffrutescent individual, belonging to the genus Helianthus, and bearing resemblance to H. annuus, has been observed in Los Angeles County, California. This individual was observed to woody proximally; not a character of the herbaceous annual sunflower, H. annuus. Photographs of this woody individual and a general herbaceous representative H. annuus are presented in this article. Dr. David J. Keil, an Asteraceae (sunflower family) taxonomist, suggests that a new shrubby species of Helianthus may be present in California, and thus, this suffrutescent individual may be a representative of that woody species. It may also be a woody variety of H. annuus.
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