Helminthotheca

Helminthotheca
Helminthotheca echioides
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Subfamily: Cichorioideae
Tribe: Cichorieae
Subtribe: Hypochaeridinae
Genus: Helminthotheca
Vaill. ex Zinn
Synonyms
  • Helminthia Juss.
  • Vigineixia Pomel

Helminthotheca (commonly called ox-tongue) is a genus in the tribe Cichorieae of the family Asteraceae. Helminthotheca is closely related to the genus Picris, both within the Hypochaeridinae subtribe.

Species
  • Helminthotheca aculeata - Italy, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia
  • Helminthotheca balansae - Algeria, Morocco
  • Helminthotheca comosa - Algeria, Morocco, southern Spain, Gibraltar
  • Helminthotheca echioides (syn. Picris echioides) - widespread across much of Europe and the Mediterranean from Ireland + Canary Islands to Poland + Iran; naturalized in Australia, North and South America
  • Helminthotheca glomerata - Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco
  • Helminthotheca spinosa - central and southern Portugal, southwestern Spain