Engelmannia peristenia |
Engelmannia |
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cutleaf daisy, Engelmann daisy, Engelmann's daisy |
Engelmann's daisy |
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Habit | Perennials, 20–50(–100) cm (taproots or caudices becoming woody). | |
Stems | erect (coarsely strigose, hispid, or hirsute), usually branched (at least distally, sometimes branched from bases, aerial stems multiple). |
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Leaves | basal and cauline; alternate; petiolate (basal and proximal cauline) or sessile (distal); blades (pinnately nerved) mostly oblong to lanceolate, usually 1(–2)-pinnately lobed, bases ± cuneate, ultimate margins entire, faces coarsely strigose, hispid, or hirsute. |
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Basal leaves | (5–)10–30 cm. |
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Cauline leaves | gradually smaller distally, primary lobes ovate to narrowly linear, their margins sometimes again lobed or toothed. |
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Involucres | 6–10 mm. |
hemispheric, 6–10 mm diam. |
Receptacles | flat, paleate (paleae linear to narrowly oblong, hirsute-ciliate at tips). |
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Ray florets/ |
10–16 mm. |
8–9 (each subtended by an inner phyllary), pistillate, fertile; corollas yellow (laminae oblong-elliptic, entire or minutely 2–3-toothed). |
Disc florets/ |
3.5–5 mm. |
25–50, functionally staminate; corollas yellow, tubes shorter than campanulate throats, lobes 5, ± deltate (anthers black, appendages deltate, obtuse; styles not branched). |
Phyllaries | persistent (outer) or falling (inner, with cypselae), mostly 18–24+ in ± 3 series (outer with relatively short, expanded, indurate bases and longer, linear, herbaceous tips, inner broadly ovate, mostly indurate, scarious-margined, herbaceous tips relatively broader and shorter, tending to split along midveins in age). |
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Heads | radiate, in open, corymbiform arrays. |
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Cypselae | 3–4 mm; pappi 1–2 mm. |
obcompressed or obflattened, obovate (each falling with subtending phyllary, 2–4, indurate paleae, plus sterile ovaries of 2–4 disc florets, margins ± ciliate, faces strigose to pilose); pappi persistent or tardily falling, of 2–4, ciliate scales. |
Phyllary | tips hirsute-ciliate. |
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x | = 9. |
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2n | = 18. |
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Engelmannia peristenia |
Engelmannia |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Jul. | |
Habitat | Grasslands, pinyon-juniper woodlands, desert scrub, roadsides | |
Elevation | 100–2000 m (300–6600 ft) | |
Distribution |
AR; AZ; CO; KS; MO; NE; NM; OK; SD; TX; Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas)
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sw United States; n Mexico |
Discussion | Species 1. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 21, p. 87. | FNA vol. 21, p. 87. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Ecliptinae > Engelmannia | Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Ecliptinae |
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Synonyms | Silphium peristenium, E. pinnatifida | |
Name authority | (Rafinesque) Goodman & C. A. Lawson: Rhodora 94: 381. (1992) | A. Gray ex Nuttall: Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., n. s. 7: 343. (1840) |
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