Flora of North America species comparison

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Garberia

garberia
Habit Shrubs, 100–250 cm (± evergreen).
Stems

erect (terete, striate when dry), branched (usually gland-dotted, farinaceous to puberulent when young).
Leaves

cauline; all or mostly alternate (at flowering);

petiolate or subsessile;

blades obscurely nerved, spatulate to spatulate-obovate or orbiculate-obovate, margins entire, faces gland-dotted (viscid, farinaceous when young).
Involucres

narrowly cylindric, 3.5–5(–6) mm diam.
Receptacles

weakly convex, epaleate.
Florets

usually 5 (aromatic);

corollas pink to purplish, throats ± campanulate, lobes 5, triangular to lance-ovate;

styles: bases not enlarged, glabrous, branches filiform to linear-clavate (distally papillose).
Phyllaries

persistent, (12–)15–20 in 3–5 series, ± striate, lanceolate to linear-oblong, unequal (apices acute or acuminate, abaxial faces farinaceous, usually gland-dotted).
Heads

discoid, in corymbiform or paniculiform arrays.
Cypselae

prismatic, ca. 10-ribbed, densely scabrellous;

pappi persistent, of ca. 60–70, barbellate bristles in 2–3 series (outer shorter than inner).

Garberia
Distribution
from FNA
FL
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Species 1.

The close relationship between Garberia and Liatris has been long recognized. T. Nuttall (1822) included G. heterophylla in Liatris sect. Leptoclinium (as L. fruticosa Nuttall). Garberia is distinct by its shrubby habit and karyotype (L. O. Gaiser 1954).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 21, p. 538. Author: Eric E. Lamont.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Eupatorieae
Subordinate taxa
G. heterophylla
Name authority A. Gray: Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 1879: 379. (1880)
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