Brickellia baccharidea |
Brickellia cylindracea |
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baccharis-leaf brickellia, baccharisleaf brickellbush, resinleaf brickellbush |
gravelbar brickellbush |
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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 |
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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 |
AZ; NM; TX
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TX |
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 | ||
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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