Brickellia rusbyi
Brickellia baccharidea
stinking brickellbush
baccharis-leaf brickellia, baccharisleaf brickellbush, resinleaf brickellbush
branched, puberulent, gland-dotted.
(ascending) branched, pubescent, sometimes glandular-pubescent.
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.
alternate;
petioles 4–10 mm;
blades 3-nerved from bases, rhombic-ovate, 10–40 × 10–20 mm, bases cuneate, margins laciniate-dentate, apices acute to obtuse, faces glabrate or gland-dotted.
4–6 mm, puberulent, sparsely gland-dotted.
5–40 mm, pubescent.
cylindric to campanulate, 7–10 mm.
narrowly campanulate, 7–11 mm.
13–20;
corollas yellowish, 5.3–6.5 mm.
16–17;
corollas cream, 6–7 mm.
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).
35–40 in 5–7 series, 3–5-striate, unequal, (glabrous, ± chartaceous) margins narrowly scarious (apices acute to acuminate);
outer ovate, inner lanceolate.
in paniculiform arrays.
in dense, paniculiform arrays.
2–2.5 mm, sericeous;
pappi of 26–32 white, barbellate bristles.
2–3 mm, pubescent;
pappi of 18–24 white, barbellate bristles.
= 18.
= 18.
Brickellia rusbyi
Brickellia baccharidea
Brickellia rusbyi has been considered ill-smelling.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Of conservation concern.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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