Flora of North America species comparison

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Berlandiera texana

Texas greeneyes
Habit Plants to 120 cm.
Stems

(erect, usually suffrutescent) much branched distally.
Leaves

evenly distributed along stems or distally crowded;

sessile or petiolate (at least mid stem);

blades elongate-deltate to lanceolate (widths to 2/3 lengths), chartaceous, margins dentate, serrate, or doubly serrate, faces hirsute to ± scabrous.
Peduncles

densely hirsute.
Involucres

18–27 mm diam.
Ray corollas

deep yellow to orange-yellow, abaxial veins green, laminae 10.5–17 mm.
Disc corollas

red to maroon.
Heads

in paniculiform or corymbiform arrays.
Cypselae

(ovate) 4.5–6 × 3–4.8 mm.
2n

= 30.

Berlandiera texana
Phenology Flowering Mar–Nov.
Habitat Dry, rocky, calcareous and sandy soils, open woodlands, glades, thickets
Elevation 100–300 m (300–1000 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AR; KS; MO; OK; TX
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Source FNA vol. 21, p. 87.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Ecliptinae > Berlandiera
Sibling taxa
B. lyrata, B. monocephala, B. pumila, B. subacaulis, B. ×betonicifolia, B. ×humilis, B. ×macrophylla
Synonyms B. longifolia
Name authority de Candolle: in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle, Prodr. 5: 517. (1836)
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