Dicoria canescens is a North American flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by several common names including desert twinbugs and bugseed.

[2][3] This is a desert plant of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, found in Sonora, Baja California, southern California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, southwestern Colorado, and northwestern New Mexico.

[3][4][5] Dicoria canescens forms thickets of many individuals in the desert sand.

The distinctive lower leaves are long, pointed, sharply toothed, and covered in a coat of thin white or gray hairs.

Sometimes the heads form closely associated pairs, a characteristic which is the origin of the common name "twinbugs".