Brickellia rusbyi |
Brickellia atractyloides |
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stinking brickellbush |
hollyleaf brickellbush, pungent brickellbush, spear leaf brickellia, spearleaf brickellbush |
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Habit | Perennials, 60–120 cm (bases woody). | Shrubs, 20–50 cm. | ||||||||
Stems | branched, puberulent, gland-dotted. |
densely branched, glandular-puberulent. |
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Leaves | alternate; petioles 10–50 mm; blades 3-nerved from bases, deltate or rhombic-ovate, 50–100 × 20–50 mm, bases acute to truncate, margins crenate or coarsely dentate, apices long-acuminate, abaxial faces sparsely villous, gland-dotted, adaxial faces glabrous or sparsely pubescent, often gland-dotted. |
opposite or alternate; petioles 0–3 mm; blades 3–4-nerved from bases (veins prominent), deltate, lanceolate, or ovate, 10–50 × 5–25 mm, bases acute to truncate or cordate, margins usually sharply dentate or dentate-serrate, rarely entire, apices acute to acuminate, faces glabrous or strigose and minutely glandular-puberulent. |
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Peduncles | 4–6 mm, puberulent, sparsely gland-dotted. |
10–70 mm, hispid to hispidulous and stipitate-glandular. |
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Involucres | cylindric to campanulate, 7–10 mm. |
cylindric to broadly campanulate, 9–15 mm. |
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Florets | 13–20; corollas yellowish, 5.3–6.5 mm. |
40–90; corollas pale yellow-green or cream, often purple-tinged, 6–8 mm. |
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Phyllaries | 22–26 in 4–7 series, 3–5-striate, unequal, margins scarious (apices obtuse to acute); outer ovate to lanceolate (often purple-tinged, glabrous or puberulent), inner linear to oblong (greenish, glabrous). |
24–33 in 3–4 series, green, 3–16-striate, subequal or unequal, margins narrowly scarious (apices acute to acuminate); outer (often bright green, 4–16-striate) lance-linear, linear-ovate, or broadly ovate, inner (pale green, 3–4-striate) linear or narrowly lanceolate (often chartaceous, scabrellous, often glandular). |
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Heads | in paniculiform arrays. |
in open, paniculiform arrays. |
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Cypselae | 2–2.5 mm, sericeous; pappi of 26–32 white, barbellate bristles. |
3–5.5 mm, scabrellous; pappi of 18–25 smooth or barbellulate bristles. |
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2n | = 18. |
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Brickellia rusbyi |
Brickellia atractyloides |
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Phenology | Flowering Aug–Oct. | |||||||||
Habitat | Rocky slopes, shaded areas | |||||||||
Elevation | 1500–2500 m (4900–8200 ft) | |||||||||
Distribution |
AZ; NM; Mexico
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AZ; CA; CO; NV; UT; nw Mexico
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Discussion | Brickellia rusbyi has been considered ill-smelling. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Varieties 3 (3 in the flora). All three varieties of Brickellia atractyloides often intergrade and are not readily distinguished in some cases. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 21, p. 506. | FNA vol. 21, p. 494. | ||||||||
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Eupatorieae > Brickellia | Asteraceae > tribe Eupatorieae > Brickellia | ||||||||
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Name authority | A. Gray: in A. Gray et al., Syn. Fl. N. Amer. 1(2): 106. (1884) | A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 8: 290. (1870) | ||||||||
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