Acourtia thurberi (A. Gray) Reveal & R. M. King

Plants 40–150 cm (stems sulcate to striate distally, densely glan-dular). Leaves cauline and/or basal; sessile; blades ovate to ovate-elliptic, 1.5 (cauline)–18 (basal) cm, bases shortly sagittate or clasping, margins acerose-denticulate, faces densely glandular-puberulent. Heads in subcongested corymbiform arrays. Involucres obconic to campanulate, 7–9 mm. Phyllaries in 2–3 series, oblong-oblanceolate, apices acuminate, abaxial faces densely glandular-hairy. Receptacles alveolate, glandular. Florets 3–6; corollas lavender-pink (purple), 7–12 mm. Cypselae subcylindric to subfusiform, 3–7 mm, glandular; pappi bright white, 8–9 mm (rigid). 2n = 54.

Perezia thurberi A. Gray, Pl. Nov. Thurber., 324. 1854

Acourtia thurberi, or Thurber's desertpeony, is a North American species of plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to the Sonoran and Chihuahuan Desert regions in northern Mexico (Chihuahua, Sonora, Durango) and the southwestern United States (Arizona, New Mexico).

Acourtia thurberi là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Cúc. Loài này được (A.Gray) Reveal & R.M.King mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1973.