Plants › Sunflowers, Daisies, Asters, and Allies

Broomstick Tree

Pittocaulon praecox

Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Mexico.January 45, February 105, March 209, April 410, May 134, June 87, July 113, August 100, September 86, October 95, November 45, December 30.
Mexico1,459
Mexico107
Guanajuato99
Puebla82
Queretaro de Arteaga51
San Luis Potosi38
Oaxaca36
Tlaxcala36
Hidalgo33
Morelos18

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Group and habits

  • Medicinal useListed as having medicinal use by a harvested source. This is not medical advice.Kew World Checklist of Useful Plant Species
  • Pollinator-associated plantDescends from a plant lineage commonly associated with pollinators.Inferred from its group

Edibility, toxicity and medicinal traits are records from datasets, not advice. Never eat, handle or use a wild species on the strength of an app.

Classification

KingdomPlants · Plantae
PhylumVascular Plants · Tracheophyta
ClassDicots · Magnoliopsida
OrderSunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies · Asterales
FamilySunflowers, Daisies, Asters, and Allies · Asteraceae
GenusPittocaulon

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Broomstick Tree with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.