Brickellia lemmonii |
Brickellia simplex |
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Lemmon's brickellbush |
Sonoran brickellbush |
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Habit | Perennials, 30–50 cm (caudices woody). | Perennials, 40–60 cm (caudices woody). | ||||
Stems | branched, pubescent, gland-dotted. |
branched, pubescent. |
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Leaves | 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. |
opposite or alternate; petioles 3–20 mm; blades 3-nerved from bases, deltate to lanceolate, 10–60 × 7–50 mm, bases cordate to truncate, margins crenate-dentate, apices acute, faces sparsely to densely pubescent, gland-dotted. |
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Peduncles | 2–15 mm, tomentose, often gland-dotted. |
20–50 mm, glandular-pubescent. |
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Involucres | narrowly cylindric, 10–13 mm. |
cylindric to broadly campanulate, 12–14 mm. |
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Florets | 9–24; corollas pale yellow-green, 6–8.2 mm. |
± 60; corollas pale yellow, often purple-tinged, 9–10 mm. |
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Phyllaries | 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). |
40–60 in 5–6 series, greenish, 4–6-striate, unequal, margins narrowly scarious (apices acute to acuminate); outer narrowly lanceolate (glandular-pubescent), inner lanceolate (glabrous or tomentulose). |
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Heads | in paniculiform arrays. |
borne singly or in open, paniculiform arrays. |
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Cypselae | 2.5–4 mm, densely pubescent; pappi of 32–43 white, mostly barbellate, sometimes subplumose, bristles. |
4–5 mm, hispidulous or glabrate; pappi of 32–36 white, barbellate bristles. |
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Brickellia lemmonii |
Brickellia simplex |
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Phenology | Flowering Aug–Oct. | |||||
Habitat | Oak woodlands, canyons, dry mountain slopes | |||||
Elevation | 1500–2700 m (4900–8900 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
AZ; NM; TX; Mexico
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AZ; NM; 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. 506. | ||||
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Eupatorieae > Brickellia | Asteraceae > tribe Eupatorieae > Brickellia | ||||
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Synonyms | Coleosanthus lemmonii | |||||
Name authority | A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 17: 206. (1882) | A. Gray: Smithsonian Contr. Knowl. 5(6): 73. (1853) | ||||
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