Brickellia laciniata |
Brickellia microphylla |
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splitleaf brickellbush |
little leaf brickellia, littleleaf brickellbush, small-leaf brickellbush, small-leaf brickellia |
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Habit | Shrubs, 60–120 cm. | Shrubs, 30–70 cm. | ||||
Stems | much branched, pubescent, gland-dotted. |
much 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. |
alternate; petioles 0–3 mm; blades 3-nerved from bases, ovate to suborbiculate, 3–20 × 1–15 mm, bases acute to obtuse or rounded, margins entire, coarsely dentate or serrate, apices rounded to acute, faces glandular-villous or hispidulous. |
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Peduncles | 0.5–2.5 mm, glandular-viscid. |
(bracteate) 2–10 mm, viscid to glandular-villous. |
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Involucres | cylindric, 6–8 mm. |
cylindric to narrowly campanulate, 7–12 mm. |
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Florets | 8–14; corollas pale yellow-green, often purple-tinged, 4.8–5.7 mm. |
8–28(–34); corollas pale yellow, often purple-tinged, 5.5–7 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. |
30–48 in 5–8 series, greenish, often purple-tinged, 3–5-striate, (recurved or spreading) unequal, margins scarious (apices acute to acuminate); outer obovate to suborbiculate (glandular-pubescent; mid sometimes 3-toothed with middle tooth elongated), inner linear-oblong (glabrous or sparsely gland-dotted). |
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Heads | in (leafy) paniculiform or racemiform arrays. |
in loose, paniculiform arrays (often clustered at ends of branches). |
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Cypselae | 2.5–3 mm, sparsely pubescent or strigose; pappi of 24–28 tawny, barbellate bristles. |
3.5–4.7 mm, glabrous or hirtellous; pappi of 18–24 white, barbellulate bristles. |
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2n | = 18. |
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Brickellia laciniata |
Brickellia microphylla |
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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; CA; CO; ID; NV; OR; UT; WA; WY; Mexico
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Discussion | Varieties 2–3 (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. 502. | FNA vol. 21, p. 503. | ||||
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Eupatorieae > Brickellia | Asteraceae > tribe Eupatorieae > Brickellia | ||||
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Synonyms | Bulbostylis microphylla | |||||
Name authority | A. Gray: Smithsonian Contr. Knowl. 3(5): 87. (1852) | (Nuttall) A. Gray: Smithsonian Contr. Knowl. 3(5): 85. (1852) | ||||
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