Brickellia microphylla |
Brickellia floribunda |
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little leaf brickellia, littleleaf brickellbush, small-leaf brickellbush, small-leaf brickellia |
Chihuahuan brickellbush, desert brickellbush |
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Habit | Shrubs, 30–70 cm. | Perennials, 100–200 cm (bases woody). | ||||
Stems | much branched, pubescent, gland-dotted. |
branched, stipitate-glandular. |
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Leaves | 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. |
alternate; petioles 20–35 mm; blades 3-nerved from bases, deltate-ovate or rhombic-ovate, 20–140 × 10–100 mm, bases truncate to cordate, margins irregularly dentate, apices acute, faces gland-dotted or glandular-pubescent. |
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Peduncles | (bracteate) 2–10 mm, viscid to glandular-villous. |
3–18 mm, stipitate-glandular. |
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Involucres | cylindric to narrowly campanulate, 7–12 mm. |
cylindric to campanulate, 7.5–8.5 mm. |
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Florets | 8–28(–34); corollas pale yellow, often purple-tinged, 5.5–7 mm. |
15–24; corollas pale yellow-green or greenish white, 5–6.5 mm. |
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Phyllaries | 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). |
22–26 in 5–6 series, greenish, often purple-tinged, 3–4-striate, unequal, margins narrowly scarious (apices obtuse to acute); outer ovate to lanceolate (glandular-hirtellous, shorter than inner), inner linear-lanceolate (glabrous). |
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Heads | in loose, paniculiform arrays (often clustered at ends of branches). |
in paniculiform arrays. |
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Cypselae | 3.5–4.7 mm, glabrous or hirtellous; pappi of 18–24 white, barbellulate bristles. |
2–3 mm, strigose; pappi of 30–35 white, barbellulate bristles. |
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2n | = 18. |
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Brickellia microphylla |
Brickellia floribunda |
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Phenology | Flowering Aug–Oct. | |||||
Habitat | Near streams, canyon bottoms | |||||
Elevation | 1100–1800 m (3600–5900 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
AZ; CA; CO; ID; NV; OR; UT; WA; WY; Mexico
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AZ; NM; 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. 503. | FNA vol. 21, p. 500. | ||||
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Eupatorieae > Brickellia | Asteraceae > tribe Eupatorieae > Brickellia | ||||
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Synonyms | Bulbostylis microphylla | |||||
Name authority | (Nuttall) A. Gray: Smithsonian Contr. Knowl. 3(5): 85. (1852) | A. Gray: Smithsonian Contr. Knowl. 5(6): 73. (1853) | ||||
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