Brickellia grandiflora |
Brickellia atractyloides |
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large flower brickelbush, large flower thoroughwort, large-flower brickellia, large-flower tassel-flower, tassel-flower brickellbush |
hollyleaf brickellbush, pungent brickellbush, spear leaf brickellia, spearleaf brickellbush |
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Habit | Perennials, 30–95 cm (taproots thickened). | Shrubs, 20–50 cm. | ||||||||
Stems | branched, puberulent. |
densely branched, glandular-puberulent. |
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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. |
opposite or alternate; petioles 0–3 mm; blades 3–4-nerved from bases (veins prominent), deltate, lanceolate, or ovate, 10–50 × 5–25 mm, bases acute to truncate or cordate, margins usually sharply dentate or dentate-serrate, rarely entire, apices acute to acuminate, faces glabrous or strigose and minutely glandular-puberulent. |
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Peduncles | 4–30 mm, pubescent. |
10–70 mm, hispid to hispidulous and stipitate-glandular. |
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Involucres | cylindric or obconic, 7–12 mm. |
cylindric to broadly campanulate, 9–15 mm. |
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Florets | mostly 20–40(–70); corollas pale yellow-green, 6.5–7.5 mm. |
40–90; corollas pale yellow-green or cream, often purple-tinged, 6–8 mm. |
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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). |
24–33 in 3–4 series, green, 3–16-striate, subequal or unequal, margins narrowly scarious (apices acute to acuminate); outer (often bright green, 4–16-striate) lance-linear, linear-ovate, or broadly ovate, inner (pale green, 3–4-striate) linear or narrowly lanceolate (often chartaceous, scabrellous, often glandular). |
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Heads | (nodding in flower and fruit) in loose, corymbiform or paniculiform arrays. |
in open, paniculiform arrays. |
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Cypselae | 4–5 mm, hispidulous to hirtellous; pappi of 20–30 white, barbellate bristles. |
3–5.5 mm, scabrellous; pappi of 18–25 smooth or barbellulate bristles. |
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2n | = 18. |
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Brickellia grandiflora |
Brickellia atractyloides |
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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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AZ; CA; CO; NV; UT; nw Mexico
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Discussion | Varieties 3 (3 in the flora). All three varieties of Brickellia atractyloides often intergrade and are not readily distinguished in some cases. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 21, p. 500. | FNA vol. 21, p. 494. | ||||||||
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Eupatorieae > Brickellia | Asteraceae > tribe Eupatorieae > Brickellia | ||||||||
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Synonyms | Eupatorium grandiflorum | |||||||||
Name authority | (Hooker) Nuttall: Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., n. s. 7: 287. (1840) | A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 8: 290. (1870) | ||||||||
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