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Atrichoseris is a genus of plants in the dandelion family.[2][1] It contains only one known species, Atrichoseris platyphylla, known by the common names tobacco weed, parachute plant, and gravel ghost.[3]

Atrichoseris platyphylla
Atrichoseris platyphylla at Lake Mead
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	Asterales
Family:	Asteraceae
Tribe:	Cichorieae
Subtribe:	Microseridinae
Genus:	Atrichoseris
Species:	A. platyphylla
Binomial name
Atrichoseris platyphylla A. Gray
Synonyms[1]
Anathrix A.Gray Malacothrix unranked Anathrix A. Gray Malacothrix platyphylla A.Gray

Atrichoseris platyphylla is native to the deserts of the southwestern United States (southern California, Arizona, Nevada and the southwestern corner of Utah) and northwestern Mexico (Sonora, Baja California). It produces a low basal rosette of rounded leaves patterned with gray-green and purple patches at ground level. It sends up a weedy-looking thin branching stem topped with a number of attractive, fragrant white or pink-tinged flowers, the layered ray florets rectangular and toothed.[4][5]

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External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Atrichoseris platyphylla.

• Calflora
• USDA Plants Profile

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