Heliopsis buphthalmoides is a New World species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is the only member of its genus native to both North America and South America. It is found in Mexico (from Durango and Sinaloa south to Chiapas), all 7 countries of Central America, and western South America (Colombia, Venezuela, Perú, and Bolivia).[2][3]

Heliopsis buphthalmoides
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Asterales
Family:	Asteraceae
Genus:	Heliopsis
Species:	H. buphthalmoides
Binomial name
Heliopsis buphthalmoides (Jacq.) Dunal 1819 not Brandegee 1889
Synonyms[1]
Synonymy Acmella buphthalmoides (Jacq.) Rich. Acmella buphthalmoides Pers. Andrieuxia mexicana DC. Anthemis buphthalmoides Jacq. 1797 Anthemis oppositifolia Lam. Anthemis ovalifolia Ortega Heliopsis dubia Dunal Heliopsis oppositifolia (Lam.) S.Díaz Heliopsis pulchra T.R.Fisher Kallias ovata Cass. Spilanthes oppositifolia (Lam.) D'Arcy Verbesina ovata Hort. ex Poir.

References

External links

• Photo of herbarium specimen at Missouri Botanical Garden, collected in northeastern Peru in 1984
• Reproduction of 1830 color lithograph by Jean Henri Jaume Saint-Hilaire

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