Flora of North America species comparison

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Nipponanthemum

Nippon daisy
Habit Shrubs, 20–100 cm.
Stems

1+, erect, branched distally, puberulent, glabrescent.
Leaves

cauline (mostly clustered distally on stems); alternate;

sessile;

blades oblong or spatulate to lanceolate (bases cuneate), margins distally toothed or entire, faces glabrous or hirtellous.
Involucres

hemispheric or broader, 15–20 mm diam.
Receptacles

convex, epaleate.
Ray florets

21–34+, pistillate, fertile;

corollas white, laminae ± ovate to linear.
Disc florets

[50–]80–250+, bisexual, fertile;

corollas yellow [red or purple], tubes cylindric (not basally dilated, usually gland-dotted), throats ± campanulate, lobes 5, deltate (without resin sacs).
Phyllaries

persistent, 30–50+ in ± 4 series, distinct, lanceolate, oblong, obovate, or ovate (not carinate), unequal, margins and apices scarious.
Heads

radiate, borne singly.
Cypselae

± columnar, ribs 8–10 (not winged), faces probably glabrous (pericarps without myxogenic cells or resin sacs);

pappi crowns of scales.
x

= 9.

Nipponanthemum
Distribution
from USDA
Asia (Japan) [Introduced in North America]
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Species 1.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 19, p. 555. Author: John L. Strother.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Anthemideae
Subordinate taxa
N. nipponicum
Synonyms Chrysanthemum section N.
Name authority (Kitamura) Kitamura: Acta Phytotax. Geobot. 29: 168. (1978)
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