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longleaf brickellbush, willow leaf brickellia

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longleaf brickellbush

Habit Shrubs, 20–200[–250] cm.
Stems

branched from above bases, ± glabrous.

Leaves

alternate;

petioles 0–5 mm;

blades 3-nerved from bases, lance-elliptic, lance-ovate, lance-linear, or linear (folded or falcate), 10–130 × 2–9 mm, bases rounded or tapering, margins entire or nearly so, apices acuminate, faces gland-dotted, often puberulent (shiny).

blades lance-elliptic to lance-linear or linear, 10–130 × 2–9 mm, lengths 8–25 times widths, flat (not folded or falcate), bases tapering.

Peduncles

0–3 mm, glabrous or glutinous.

Involucres

cylindric, 5–7 mm.

Florets

3–7;

corollas cream, 3.5–4.5 mm.

Phyllaries

10–24 in 6–8 series, pale green to stramineous, 3–5-striate, unequal, (glutinous) margins scarious;

outer ovate (apices acute), inner lanceolate (apices obtuse).

Heads

in (leafy) paniculiform arrays.

Cypselae

1.8–2.5 mm, scabrous;

pappi of 30–40 barbellulate bristles.

Brickellia longifolia

Brickellia longifolia var. longifolia

Phenology Flowering Sep–Nov.
Habitat Washes, stream margins, seeps, hanging gardens
Elevation 900–1700 m (3000–5600 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; CA; CO; NV; UT
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from FNA
AZ; CO; NV; UT
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Discussion

Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Key
1. Leaf blades lance-elliptic to lance-linear or linear, 10–130 × 2–9 mm, lengths 8–25 times widths, flat (not folded or falcate), bases tapering
var. longifolia
1. Leaf blades lance-ovate to narrowly lanceolate, 10–130 × 2–15 mm, lengths 4–8 times widths, folded along midveins and/or falcate, basesrounded
var. multiflora
Source FNA vol. 21, p. 503. FNA vol. 21, p. 503.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Eupatorieae > Brickellia Asteraceae > tribe Eupatorieae > Brickellia > Brickellia longifolia
Sibling taxa
B. amplexicaulis, B. atractyloides, B. baccharidea, B. betonicifolia, B. brachyphylla, B. californica, B. chenopodina, B. cordifolia, B. coulteri, B. cylindracea, B. dentata, B. desertorum, B. eupatorioides, B. floribunda, B. frutescens, B. grandiflora, B. greenei, B. hinckleyi, B. incana, B. knappiana, B. laciniata, B. lemmonii, B. microphylla, B. nevinii, B. oblongifolia, B. parvula, B. pringlei, B. rusbyi, B. simplex, B. venosa, B. veronicifolia
B. longifolia var. multiflora
Subordinate taxa
B. longifolia var. longifolia, B. longifolia var. multiflora
Name authority S. Watson: Amer. Naturalist 7: 301. (1873) unknown
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