Flora of North America species comparison

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Facelis

trampweed
Habit Annuals, 3–30 cm (taprooted or fibrous-rooted, not stoloniferous).
Stems

usually 1, erect to decumbent.
Leaves

cauline; alternate;

sessile;

blades spatulate or oblanceolate to lance-linear, bases ± cuneate, margins entire (usually revolute), faces bicolor, abaxial gray, tomentose, adaxial green, glabrous.
Involucres

narrowly ovoid or nearly cylindric [campanulate or broadly turbinate], 8–11 mm.
Receptacles

flat, smooth, epaleate.
Peripheral (pistillate) florets

10–25 (more numerous than bisexual);

corollas whitish to purplish.
Phyllaries

in 3–5+ series, usually greenish to stramineous, sometimes purplish (hyaline, stereomes not glandular), unequal, chartaceous toward tips.
Heads

disciform, usually in ± capitate to loose, spiciform arrays, rarely borne singly (in leaf axils).
Cypselae

obovoid, ± compressed (2–3-nerved), faces silvery sericeous (hairs not myxogenic);

pappi persistent, of 20–30+, distinct or basally connate, ± plumose bristles in 1 series.
Inner

(bisexual) florets 3–5;

corollas white to purplish.
x

= 14.

Facelis
Distribution
from USDA
North America; South America; Africa; Australia
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Species 3 or 4 (1 in the flora).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 19, p. 442. Author: Guy L. Nesom.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Gnaphalieae
Subordinate taxa
F. retusa
Name authority Cassini: Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris 1819: 94. (1819)
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