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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
from FNA
FL; GA
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Source FNA vol. 21, p. 390.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Chaenactidinae > Palafoxia
Sibling taxa
P. arida, P. callosa, P. feayi, P. hookeriana, P. reverchonii, P. riograndensis, P. rosea, P. sphacelata, P. texana
Synonyms Polypteris integrifolia
Name authority (Nuttall) Torrey & A. Gray: Fl. N. Amer. 2: 369. (1842)
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