Native Plants
Digital Herbaria
Thelesperma filifolium var. filifolium
Thelesperma filifolium (Hook.) A. Gray var. filifolium
Stiff Greenthread, Showy Navajo Tea, Greenthread
Asteraceae (Aster Family)
USDA Symbol: THFIFUSDA Native Status: L48 (N)
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Specimen & Label Data
Thelesperma filafolium var. filafolium
Green-Thread
Asteraceae
Location: SE edge of Austin Hwy, just E of Salado Creek, San Antonio.Latitude: 0.000000
Habitat: Sunny, well drained, SE facing, caliche slope. Among Poaceae & other herbs. Few, scattered.
Description: Erect, 50 cm tall, annual. Stalk single from stout taproot, branching (ascending) above, terete, striate. Leaves throughout, mostly tri-pinnasect; those above opposite. Ligules-8, golden-yellow. Disk florets brown, deeply and unenvenly lobed. Outer phyllaries more than 1/2 length of the inner.
County: Bexar
Collector: Harry Cliffe
Collection Date: Mar 12, 1994
Specimen number: 536
Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
Herbarium ID: 0819
Accession Date: Jun 29, 1994
Accession Number: 61
Annotations: SCXRB (In flower)