Stephanomeria

Stephanomeria is a genus of North American plants also known as wirelettuce,^[4] belonging to the tribe Cichorieae within the family Asteraceae.^[5][6]

Stephanomeria
Stephanomeria virgata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Asterales
Family:	Asteraceae
Subfamily:	Cichorioideae
Tribe:	Cichorieae
Subtribe:	Microseridinae
Genus:	Stephanomeria Nutt.
Type species
Stephanomeria minor[1] (syn of S. tenuifolia)[2] (Hook.) Nutt.
Synonyms[3]
Hemiptilium A.Gray Ptiloria Raf.

Stephanomeria species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Schinia scarletina, which feeds exclusively on the genus.

Annual species^[3][7][8]

• Stephanomeria diegensis Gottlieb - San Diego wirelettuce - Baja California, southern California; Hybrid origin: S. exigua х S. virgata^[9]
• Stephanomeria elata Nutt. - Santa Barbara wirelettuce - California and Oregon; 2n=32
• Stephanomeria exigua Nutt. - small wirelettuce - widespread throughout western United States + Baja California; 2n=16
• Stephanomeria hitchcockii Gand. - Kansas
• Stephanomeria malheurensis Gottlieb - Malheur wirelettuce - Harney County in Oregon; 2n=16
• Stephanomeria mexiae M.E.Jones - Chihuahua
• Stephanomeria paniculata Nutt. - tufted wirelettuce - Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Idaho; 2n=16
• Stephanomeria virgata Benth. - rod wirelettuce - California, Oregon, Nevada, Baja California; 2n=16

Perennial species^[3][7][10]

• Stephanomeria cichoriacea A.Gray - chicoryleaf wirelettuce - southern California; 2n=16
• Stephanomeria fluminea Gottlieb - Teton wirelettuce - Endemic to northwestern Wyoming; 2n=16
• Stephanomeria guadalupensis Brandegee - Endemic to Guadalupe Island in Baja California; 2n=16
• Stephanomeria lactucina A.Gray - woodland wirelettuce - California, Oregon and Nevada; 2n=16
• Stephanomeria monocephala Moran - Baja California
• Stephanomeria occultata Wellard & J.W.Baker - Endemic to Weber River corridor, Northern Utah; 2n=16
• Stephanomeria parryi A.Gray - Parry's wirelettuce - Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah; 2n=32
• Stephanomeria pauciflora (Torr.) A.Nelson - Brownplume wirelettuce - widespread, southwestern United States; Mexico (Baja California, Sonora, Coahuila); 2n=16
• Stephanomeria runcinata Nutt. - desert wirelettuce - Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, Utah, Wyoming, North Dakota, Alberta, Saskatchewan; 2n=16
• Stephanomeria tenuifolia (Raf.) H.M.Hall - narrow-leaved wirelettuce - western United States; Saskatchewan, British Columbia, Baja California; 2n=16
• Stephanomeria thurberi A.Gray - Thurber's wirelettuce - New Mexico, Arizona, Sonora, Texas; 2n=16

formerly included

see Chaetadelpha Microseris Munzothamnus Pleiacanthus Prenanthella

• Stephanomeria blairii - Munzothamnus blairii
• Stephanomeria intermedia - Microseris nutans
• Stephanomeria minima - Prenanthella exigua
• Stephanomeria spinosa - Pleiacanthus spinosus
• Stephanomeria wheeleri - Chaetadelpha wheeleri