Asteraceae
Brownplume wirelettuce
Stephanomeria pauciflora
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Genus
- Stephanomeria
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Common names
By language (2)
- English
- Brownplume wirelettuce
- nv
- Jéédootłʼizh
Synonyms
- Jamesia pauciflora (Torr.) Nees
- Lygodesmia pauciflora (Torr.) Shinners
- Prenanthes pauciflora Torr.
- Ptiloria cinerea S.F.Blake
- Ptiloria divaricata Greene
- Ptiloria lygodesmoides A.Heller
- Ptiloria pauciflora (Torr.) Raf.
- Stephanomeria cinerea (S.F.Blake) S.F.Blake
- Stephanomeria haleyi Eastw.
- Stephanomeria lygodesmoides M.E.Jones
- Stephanomeria lygodesmoides M.E.Jones ex L.F.Hend.
- Stephanomeria pauciflora var. parishii (Jeps.) Munz
- Stephanomeria pauciflora var. pauciflora
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb, Subshrub
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Lower 48 states: native
Photos

Photo: Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: David~O, CC BY 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Jim Morefield from Nevada, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Patrick Alexander from Las Cruces, NM, CC0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.