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baccharis-leaf brickellia, baccharisleaf brickellbush, resinleaf brickellbush

gravelbar brickellbush

Habit Shrubs, 100–150 cm. Perennials, 40–120 cm (caudices woody).
Stems

(ascending) branched, pubescent, sometimes glandular-pubescent.

branched, pubescent, gland-dotted.

Leaves

alternate;

petioles 4–10 mm;

blades 3-nerved from bases, rhombic-ovate, 10–40 × 10–20 mm, bases cuneate, margins laciniate-dentate, apices acute to obtuse, faces glabrate or gland-dotted.

mostly opposite, sometimes alternate or subopposite;

petioles 0–3 mm;

blades 3-nerved from bases, lanceolate to obovate, 20–60 × 12–30 mm, bases ± cuneate, margins crenate to serrate, apices obtuse to acute, abaxial faces tomentose, often densely gland-dotted as well (venation raised, reticulate), adaxial faces pubescent and gland-dotted.

Peduncles

5–40 mm, pubescent.

2–15 mm, densely tomentose, often gland-dotted.

Involucres

narrowly campanulate, 7–11 mm.

cylindric to campanulate, 8–13 mm.

Florets

16–17;

corollas cream, 6–7 mm.

10–21;

corollas greenish, yellow, or yellow-orange, often purple-tinged, 5–7 mm.

Phyllaries

35–40 in 5–7 series, 3–5-striate, unequal, (glabrous, ± chartaceous) margins narrowly scarious (apices acute to acuminate);

outer ovate, inner lanceolate.

18–22 in 5–7 series, greenish, often purplish-tinged, 6–8-striate, unequal, margins scarious (apices acute to acuminate);

outer ovate (sparsely villous, gland-dotted, lengths no more than 1/2 inner, margins long-ciliate), inner narrowly lanceolate to linear-oblong (glabrous).

Heads

in dense, paniculiform arrays.

in ± dense, racemiform or paniculiform arrays.

Cypselae

2–3 mm, pubescent;

pappi of 18–24 white, barbellate bristles.

3.5–5 mm, sparsely to densely pubescent;

pappi of 30–35, white to tawny, barbellate bristles.

2n

= 18.

= 18.

Brickellia baccharidea

Brickellia cylindracea

Phenology Flowering Oct–Apr. Flowering Jun–Nov.
Habitat Sandy to granitic soils, limestone slopes, granitic cliffs Dry limestone hillsides
Elevation 500–1600 m (1600–5200 ft) 100–600 m (300–2000 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; NM; TX
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from FNA
TX
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Discussion

Of conservation concern.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

L. D. Flyr (1970) rightly noted that Brickellia cylindracea is variable in leaf size, shape, and texture as well as arrangements of heads, and added that it is not easily distinguished from B. conduplicata (= B. lemmonii var. conduplicata), which accounts for most of the specimens in west Texas. Brickellia cylindracea has a more eastern distribution than B. lemmonii var. conduplicata and appears to have a strong preference for limestone soils. Some specimens from limestone outcrops in west Texas blur distinction between the two species.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 21, p. 494. FNA vol. 21, p. 497.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Eupatorieae > Brickellia Asteraceae > tribe Eupatorieae > Brickellia
Sibling taxa
B. amplexicaulis, B. atractyloides, B. betonicifolia, B. brachyphylla, B. californica, B. chenopodina, B. cordifolia, B. coulteri, B. cylindracea, B. dentata, B. desertorum, B. eupatorioides, B. floribunda, B. frutescens, B. grandiflora, B. greenei, B. hinckleyi, B. incana, B. knappiana, B. laciniata, B. lemmonii, B. longifolia, B. microphylla, B. nevinii, B. oblongifolia, B. parvula, B. pringlei, B. rusbyi, B. simplex, B. venosa, B. veronicifolia
B. amplexicaulis, B. atractyloides, B. baccharidea, B. betonicifolia, B. brachyphylla, B. californica, B. chenopodina, B. cordifolia, B. coulteri, B. dentata, B. desertorum, B. eupatorioides, B. floribunda, B. frutescens, B. grandiflora, B. greenei, B. hinckleyi, B. incana, B. knappiana, B. laciniata, B. lemmonii, B. longifolia, B. microphylla, B. nevinii, B. oblongifolia, B. parvula, B. pringlei, B. rusbyi, B. simplex, B. venosa, B. veronicifolia
Name authority A. Gray: Smithsonian Contr. Knowl. 3(5): 87. (1852) A. Gray & Engelmann: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 1: 46. (1847)
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