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Habit | Perennials, to 30 cm. |
Stems | prostrate to decumbent, branched throughout. |
Leaves | cauline; opposite; petiolate; blades (± 3-nerved) deltate to ovate or lanceolate, bases cuneate to truncate, margins toothed, faces ± scabrellous. |
Involucres | obconic, 3–8 mm diam. |
Receptacles | convex, paleate (paleae persistent, scarious). |
Ray florets | 3–8, pistillate, fertile; corollas pale yellow. |
Disc florets | 10–20, bisexual, fertile; corollas yellow, tubes shorter than funnelform throats, lobes 4–5, ± deltate. |
Phyllaries | persistent, 5 in 1(–2) series (linear to lanceolate, herbaceous). |
Heads | radiate, borne singly (in axils). |
Cypselae | compressed or flattened, cuneate (faces often tuberculate); pappi persistent, of 2(–5+) stout awns. |
x | = 12. |
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Distribution |
Mexico; Central America; s United States |
Discussion | Species 2 (1 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 21, p. 133. |
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Name authority | Lessing: Syn. Gen. Compos., 221. (1832) |
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