Brickellia coulteri |
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Coulter's brickellbush |
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Habit | Shrubs, 30–150 cm. | ||||
Stems | much branched from bases, pubescent, often gland-dotted. |
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Leaves | opposite; petioles 4–12 mm; blades 3-nerved from bases, broadly ovate to deltate, 10–60 × 10–30 mm, bases truncate, hastate, or subcordate, margins usually toothed (1–3 sets of sharp teeth near bases), rarely subentire, apices attenuate, faces minutely pubescent. |
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Peduncles | 5–40 mm, pubescent and sometimes gland-dotted. |
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Involucres | cylindric to campanulate, 8–12 mm. |
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Florets | 13–25; corollas pale yellow-green, often purple-tinged, 7–8.2 mm. |
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Phyllaries | 17–22 in 4–6 series, greenish, often purple-tinged, 4–5-striate, unequal, margins scarious (apices acute to acuminate or mucronate, minutely pubescent); outer lance-ovate to narrowly lanceolate (glabrous or sparsely pubescent), inner narrowly lanceolate to linear (glabrous). |
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Heads | in loose, paniculiform arrays. |
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Cypselae | 3–5 mm, hispidulous, strigose, or glandular-pubescent; pappi of 28–40 smooth or barbellulate bristles. |
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Brickellia coulteri |
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Distribution |
AZ; NM; TX; n Mexico
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Discussion | Varieties 3 (2 in the flora}. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 21, p. 496. | ||||
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Eupatorieae > Brickellia | ||||
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Name authority | A. Gray: Smithsonian Contr. Knowl. 3(5): 86. (1852) | ||||
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