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large flower brickelbush, large flower thoroughwort, large-flower brickellia, large-flower tassel-flower, tassel-flower brickellbush

Habit Perennials, 30–95 cm (taproots thickened).
Stems

branched, puberulent.

Leaves

opposite or alternate;

petioles 10–70 mm;

blades 3-nerved from bases, deltate-ovate, lance-ovate, or subcordate, 15–120 × 20–70 mm, bases acute, truncate, or subcordate, margins crenate, dentate, or serrate, apices attenuate, faces puberulent and gland-dotted.

Peduncles

4–30 mm, pubescent.

Involucres

cylindric or obconic, 7–12 mm.

Florets

mostly 20–40(–70);

corollas pale yellow-green, 6.5–7.5 mm.

Phyllaries

30–40 in 5–7 series, greenish, 4–5-striate, unequal, margins scarious;

outer lance-ovate to lanceolate (pubescent, margins ciliate, apices long-acuminate), inner lanceolate to lance-linear (glabrous, apices acute to acuminate).

Heads

(nodding in flower and fruit) in loose, corymbiform or paniculiform arrays.

Cypselae

4–5 mm, hispidulous to hirtellous;

pappi of 20–30 white, barbellate bristles.

2n

= 18.

Brickellia grandiflora

Phenology Flowering Jul–Oct.
Habitat Rocky hillsides, shaded forests, dry slopes, canyons
Elevation 1200–3000 m (3900–9800 ft)
Distribution
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AR; AZ; CA; CO; ID; KS; MO; MT; NE; NM; NV; OR; TX; UT; WA; WY
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Source FNA vol. 21, p. 500.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Eupatorieae > Brickellia
Sibling taxa
B. amplexicaulis, B. atractyloides, B. baccharidea, 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. 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
Synonyms Eupatorium grandiflorum
Name authority (Hooker) Nuttall: Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., n. s. 7: 287. (1840)
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