Brickellia grandiflora |
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large flower brickelbush, large flower thoroughwort, large-flower brickellia, large-flower tassel-flower, tassel-flower brickellbush |
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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 |
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Phenology | Flowering Jul–Oct. |
Habitat | Rocky hillsides, shaded forests, dry slopes, canyons |
Elevation | 1200–3000 m (3900–9800 ft) |
Distribution |
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 | |
Synonyms | Eupatorium grandiflorum |
Name authority | (Hooker) Nuttall: Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., n. s. 7: 287. (1840) |
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