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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Microseridinae
  8. Skeletonplant

genus

Skeletonplant

Lygodesmia

Traits
Includes
4 native
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Texas Skeleton Plant native
  • Rose Rush native
  • Rush Skeletonplant native
  • Skeleton Plant native
  • Dolores River Skeletonplant
  • Lygodesmia ramosissima

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Key traits

Layer
Herbaceous plants
Plant type
Perennial Wildflower

From USDA PLANTS.

Top native skeletonplant All

Native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.

  • Rush Skeletonplant Lygodesmia juncea hosts 1 flowers 12
  • Skeleton Plant Lygodesmia grandiflora food 1 flowers 2
  • Texas Skeleton Plant Lygodesmia texana food 1 flowers 1
  • Rose Rush Lygodesmia aphylla flowers 13

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