Palafoxia feayi |
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Feay's palafox |
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Habit | Perennials or subshrubs, 100–300 cm. |
Stems | strigillose to nearly glabrous, not stipitate-glandular. |
Leaf | blades narrowly elliptic, broadly oblong, or ovate, 20–60 × 5–25 mm. |
Involucres | campanulate or broadly to narrowly turbinate. |
Ray florets | 0. |
Disc florets | 15–30; corollas ± actinomorphic, 10–14 mm, throats ± cylindric, longer than lobes. |
Phyllaries | 5–9 × 1–1.5 mm, ± equal, ± strigillose. |
Cypselae | 6–8 mm; pappus scales of inner cypselae 1.5–2 mm. |
2n | = 24. |
Palafoxia feayi |
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Phenology | Flowering (spring–)late summer–fall. |
Habitat | Sandy soils |
Elevation | 0–10 m (0–0 ft) |
Distribution |
FL
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Source | FNA vol. 21, p. 390. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Chaenactidinae > Palafoxia |
Sibling taxa | |
Name authority | A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 12: 59. (1877) |
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