Flora of North America species comparison

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Carphochaete bigelovii

Bigelow bush, Bigelow's bristlehead, bristlehead
Stems

usually stiff, erect.
Leaves

often fascicled on older growth;

blades 5–35 mm.
Involucres

12–20 mm.
Corollas

15–20 mm, throats usually purplish, lobes creamy white.
Phyllaries

gland-dotted, sometimes puberulent as well, margins narrowly hyaline, apices acute.
Heads

terminal (± pedunculate) or in leaf axils (sessile).
Cypselae

yellow-green to golden brown, 11–14 mm;

pappus scales mostly brownish to purplish with colorless, hyaline margins, aristae of the longer 1–3+ mm, scabrous.
2n

= 22.

Carphochaete bigelovii
Phenology Flowering Jan–Jun.
Habitat Sandy soils, rock outcrops in grasslands, chaparral, pine-oak woodlands
Elevation 900–2200 m (3000–7200 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; NM; TX; Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Sonora)
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Source FNA vol. 21, p. 487.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Eupatorieae > Carphochaete
Name authority A. Gray: Smithsonian Contr. Knowl. 3(5): 89. (1852)
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