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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Pityopsis

Hierarchical position of the Genus Pityopsis

Regnum  Plantae common name: The plant kingdom       Divisio  Magnoliophyta Cronquist syn. Angiospermophyta / Anthophyta pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: angiosperms, flowering plants       Subdivisio  Magnoliophytina Frohne & U. Jensen ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: Angiosperms       Classis  Rosopsida Batsch pub. Dispos. Gen. Pl. Jenens.: 28. 1788.       Subclassis  Asteridae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 405. Jan-Mar 1967.       SuperOrdo  Asteranae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 451. Jan-Mar 1967.       Ordo  Asterales Lindl. pub. 1833       Familia  Asteraceae Dumort. pub. Comment. Bot.: 55. Nov-Dec 1822. common name: Sunflowers       Familia  Compositae Giseke pub. Prael. Ord. Nat. Pl.: 538. Apr 1792, nom. cons.       Genus  Pityopsis Nutt. common name: silkgrass

Named members of the Genus Pityopsis

1	Species  adenolepis (Fern.) Semple common name: Carolina silkgrass
2	Species  aspera (Shuttlw. ex Small) Small common name: pineland silkgrass
3	Species  falcata (Pursh) Nutt. common name: sickleleaf silkgrass
4	Species  flexuosa (Nash) Small common name: zigzag silkgrass
5	Species  graminifolia (Michx.) Nutt.
	6    Varietas  aequilifolia Bowers & Semple common name: narrowleaf silkgrass 7    Varietas  graminifolia common name: narrowleaf silkgrass 8    Varietas  latifolia (Fern.) Semple & Bowers common name: narrowleaf silkgrass 9    Varietas  microcephala (Small) Semple syn. Pityopsis graminifolia var. tenuifolia 10    Varietas  tenuifolia (Torr.) Semple & Bowers common name: narrowleaf silkgrass 11    Varietas  tracyi (Small) Semple common name: Tracy's silkgrass
12	Species  microcephala (Small) Small syn. Pityopsis graminifolia var. tenuifolia
13	Species  oligantha (Chapman ex Torr. & Gray) Small common name: grassleaf goldaster
14	Species  pinifolia (Ell.) Nutt. common name: Taylor County goldaster
15	Species  ruthii (Small) Small common name: Ruth's goldaster
16	Species  tracyi (Small) Small syn. Pityopsis graminifolia var. tracyi

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.