Brickellia laciniata |
Brickellia lemmonii |
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splitleaf brickellbush |
Lemmon's brickellbush |
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Habit | Shrubs, 60–120 cm. | Perennials, 30–50 cm (caudices woody). | ||||
Stems | much branched, pubescent, gland-dotted. |
branched, pubescent, gland-dotted. |
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Leaves | alternate; petioles 2–5 mm; blades 3-nerved from bases, oblong to broadly ovate, 6–15 × 5–9 mm, bases narrowly cuneate, margins irregularly dentate, apices acute to obtuse, faces sparsely pubescent, gland-dotted. |
mostly alternate, sometimes opposite; petioles 0–5 mm; blades 3-nerved from bases (venation raised, reticulate), elliptic to lanceolate or ovate to subdeltate, 20–70 × 7–20 mm, bases ± cuneate, margins crenate to serrate, apices acute, faces glandular-pubescent. |
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Peduncles | 0.5–2.5 mm, glandular-viscid. |
2–15 mm, tomentose, often gland-dotted. |
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Involucres | cylindric, 6–8 mm. |
narrowly cylindric, 10–13 mm. |
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Florets | 8–14; corollas pale yellow-green, often purple-tinged, 4.8–5.7 mm. |
9–24; corollas pale yellow-green, 6–8.2 mm. |
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Phyllaries | 15–25 in 4–6 series, stramineous, 3–5-striate, unequal, (gland-dotted) margins scarious (apices obtuse to acute); outer ovate, inner lanceolate. |
18–20 in 3–4(–5) series, green or purplish, 5–9-striate, unequal, margins scarious (apices acute, attenuate, obtuse, or nearly rounded); outer ovate (lengths evenly grading to inner, margins ciliate, faces pubescent, often gland-dotted), inner narrowly lanceolate to linear-oblong (faces glabrous). |
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Heads | in (leafy) paniculiform or racemiform arrays. |
in paniculiform arrays. |
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Cypselae | 2.5–3 mm, sparsely pubescent or strigose; pappi of 24–28 tawny, barbellate bristles. |
2.5–4 mm, densely pubescent; pappi of 32–43 white, mostly barbellate, sometimes subplumose, bristles. |
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2n | = 18. |
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Brickellia laciniata |
Brickellia lemmonii |
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Phenology | Flowering Aug–Nov. | |||||
Habitat | Dry slopes, streambeds (arroyos) | |||||
Elevation | 1300–1900 m (4300–6200 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
NM; TX; Mexico
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AZ; NM; TX; Mexico
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Discussion | Varieties 4 (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. 502. | FNA vol. 21, p. 502. | ||||
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Eupatorieae > Brickellia | Asteraceae > tribe Eupatorieae > Brickellia | ||||
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Synonyms | Coleosanthus lemmonii | |||||
Name authority | A. Gray: Smithsonian Contr. Knowl. 3(5): 87. (1852) | A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 17: 206. (1882) | ||||
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