Flora of North America species comparison

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Parthenice mollis

annual monsterwort
Leaf

blades mostly 10–30, 8–25 cm, distal smaller.
Heads

10–100+ together.
Cypselae

obovoid, somewhat cucullate, 1.8–2 mm, often tuberculate, glabrous.
2n

= 36.

Parthenice mollis
Phenology Flowering mostly summer.
Habitat Desert slopes, washes, southern exposures
Elevation 900–1400 m (3000–4600 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; Mexico (Baja California Sur, Chihuahua, Sinaloa, Sonora)
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Source FNA vol. 21, p. 24.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Ambrosiinae > Parthenice
Name authority A. Gray: Smithsonian Contr. Knowl. 5(6): 85. (1853)
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