Palafoxia integrifolia |
|
---|---|
coastal plain palafox |
|
Habit | Subshrubs or shrubs, 30–150 cm. |
Stems | strigillose to glabrate, not stipitate-glandular. |
Leaf | blades lanceolate to linear, 25–90 × 2–13 mm. |
Involucres | broadly turbinate. |
Ray florets | 0. |
Disc florets | 10–26; corollas ± actinomorphic, 7–13 mm, throats ± funnelform, shorter than lobes. |
Phyllaries | 8–11 × 1–3.5 mm, unequal, glabrous or glabrate. |
Cypselae | 5–6 mm; pappus scales of inner cypselae 4–7 mm. |
2n | = 24. |
Palafoxia integrifolia |
|
Phenology | Flowering (spring–)late summer–fall. |
Habitat | Sandy soils |
Elevation | 0–50+ m (0–200+ ft) |
Distribution |
FL; GA
|
Source | FNA vol. 21, p. 390. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Chaenactidinae > Palafoxia |
Sibling taxa | |
Synonyms | Polypteris integrifolia |
Name authority | (Nuttall) Torrey & A. Gray: Fl. N. Amer. 2: 369. (1842) |
Web links |