Flora of North America species comparison

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Gomphrena nitida

ball clover, pearly globe-amaranth
Habit Plants annual, not cespitose, 2–7 dm; roots fibrous.
Stems

usually erect, pilose or strigose.
Leaves

sessile or petiolate;

petiole to 0.7 cm;

blade green, obovate or oblong, 1.5–6 × 0.4–2.5 cm, apex obtuse or acute, pilose.
Inflorescences

heads yellowish white or rarely reddish, subglobose, 12–16 mm diam.;

bractlets with laciniate crests.
Flowers

tube lanate;

perianth lobes white, linear, 4.1 mm, hyaline, apex attenuate.
Seeds

1.5 mm.
Utricles

ovoid, 1.5 mm, apex truncate.

Gomphrena nitida
Phenology Flowering late summer–fall.
Habitat Moist ground, bottomlands, canyons, rocky open slopes
Elevation 500-2000 m (1600-6600 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; NM; TX; Mexico
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Source FNA vol. 4, p. 453.
Parent taxa Amaranthaceae > Gomphrena
Sibling taxa
G. caespitosa, G. globosa, G. haageana, G. martiana, G. nealleyi, G. serrata, G. sonorae, G. viridis
Synonyms G. globosa var. albiflora
Name authority Rothrock: Rep. U.S. Geogr. Surv., Wheeler, 233. (1879)
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