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Genus of flowering plants
Heliopsis is a
genus of
herbaceous
flowering plants in the family
Asteraceae ,
[2]
[3]
native to dry prairies in
North and
South America .
[4] The sunflower-like
composite flowerheads are usually yellow, up to 8 cm (3 in) in diameter, and are borne in summer. Species are commonly called ox-eye or oxeye.
[5]
The name Heliopsis (pronounced , from Greek helios for "sun" and opsis for "appearance") refers to the bright yellow color of the flowers.
Species are found widely in cultivation in temperate climates, notably varieties of H. helianthoides .
Species
There are about 18 species, including:
[6]
[1]
Heliopsis annua – Zacatecas, Oaxaca, Coahuila, Michoacán, Querétaro, Guanajuato, Nuevo León, Puebla, México State, Hidalgo, San Luis Potosí
Heliopsis anomala – Baja California Sur
Heliopsis buphthalmoides (synonym Heliopsis canescens ) – Chiapas, Oaxaca, Panama, Honduras, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru, Bolivia
Heliopsis decumbens – Peru
Heliopsis filifolia – Coahuila
Heliopsis gracilis – smooth oxeye, pinewoods oxeye – southeastern and south-central United States
[7]
Heliopsis helianthoides – smooth oxeye, false sunflower, oxeye, rough oxeye
[8] – most of eastern and central USA and Canada
[9]
Heliopsis lanceolata – Colombia
Heliopsis longipes – gold root – San Luis Potosí
Heliopsis novogaliciana – Jalisco, Durango, Sinaloa
Heliopsis parviceps – Guerrero
Heliopsis parvifolia – mountain oxeye – northern Mexico, southwestern United States
[10]
Heliopsis procumbens – Durango, Jalisco, Mexico State, Distrito Federal, Sinaloa
Heliopsis sinaloensis – Sinaloa
Heliopsis suffruticosa – Zacatecas
[11]
References
^
a
b
The Plant List search for Heliopsis
^
Persoon, Christiaan Hendrik. 1807. Synopsis plantarum,seu Enchiridium botanicum, complectens enumerationem systematicam specierum hucusque cognitarum 2: 473 in Latin
^ Sunset Western Garden Book, 1995:606–607
^
Tropicos, Heliopsis Pers.
^ RHS A-Z encyclopedia of garden plants . United Kingdom: Dorling Kindersley. 2008. p. 1136.
ISBN
978-1405332965 .
^ Smith, Alan R. (2006).
"Heliopsis " . In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (ed.).
Flora of North America North of Mexico (FNA) . Vol. 21. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press – via eFloras.org,
Missouri Botanical Garden , St. Louis, MO &
Harvard University Herbaria , Cambridge, MA.
^ Smith, Alan R. (2006).
"Heliopsis gracilis " . In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (ed.).
Flora of North America North of Mexico (FNA) . Vol. 21. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press – via eFloras.org,
Missouri Botanical Garden , St. Louis, MO &
Harvard University Herbaria , Cambridge, MA.
^
"Heliopsis helianthoides " .
Germplasm Resources Information Network .
Agricultural Research Service ,
United States Department of Agriculture . Retrieved 10 January 2018 .
^
USDA, NRCS (n.d.).
"Heliopsis " . The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov) . Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team.
^ Smith, Alan R. (2006).
"Heliopsis parvifolia " . In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (ed.).
Flora of North America North of Mexico (FNA) . Vol. 21. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press – via eFloras.org,
Missouri Botanical Garden , St. Louis, MO &
Harvard University Herbaria , Cambridge, MA.
^ Ramírez -Noya, David; González-Elizondo, Socorro; Molina -Torres, Jorge (2011-10-01).
"Heliopsis suffruticosa (Compositae, Heliantheae), una nueva especie del occidente de Zacatecas" . Acta Botánica Mexicana (97): 39–47.
ISSN
0187-7151 .