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Asteraceae

Longspine horsebrush

Tetradymia axillaris A.Nelson

Family
Asteraceae
Genus
Tetradymia

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Longspine horsebrush: Photo of Tetradymia axillaris , probably var. longispinus , in Red Rock Canyon , Nevada
Photo: Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons

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Common names

By language (1)
English
Longspine horsebrush

Characteristics

Growth habit
Shrub, Subshrub
Lifespan
Perennial
In the US and Canada
Lower 48 states: native

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Sources: classification 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.