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gray feverfew, Gray's feverfew

mariola

Habit Biennials (sometimes flowering first year or persisting), 10–30(–60+) cm. Shrubs, 30–100+ cm.
Leaf

blades ovate or rounded-deltate to elliptic, 30–80(–120+) × 10–20(–40+) mm, usually ± pinnately or sub-bipinnately lobed, ultimate margins entire, faces strigillose, usually also with erect hairs 1–2 mm and gland-dotted.

blades oval-elliptic to obovate, 15–25(–40+) × 6–15(–25+) mm, sometimes pinnately (3–)5–7-lobed or round-toothed, ultimate margins entire, faces tomentose (gray to white) and gland-dotted.

Peduncles

2–8(–12+) mm.

1–3+ mm.

Pistillate florets

5;

corolla laminae 0 or ± coroniform, 0.1–0.5 mm.

5;

corolla laminae ovate, 1–1.5 mm.

Disc florets

20–30+.

8–20(–30+).

Phyllaries

outer 5 lance-ovate to elliptic, 2.5–3+ mm, inner 5 ± orbiculate, 3–3.5 mm.

outer 5 oblong, 1.5–2 mm, inner 5 orbiculate, 2–2.5 mm.

Heads

disciform or obscurely radiate, borne in open, ± paniculiform arrays.

radiate, in glomerules of 3–5+ on branched stalks 1–5(–12+) cm, forming compound, corymbiform arrays.

Cypselae

± obovoid, 2–3 mm; pappus-like enations 2, ± erect, deltate to ovate, 0.5–1 mm (sometimes a third, subulate spur near apex adaxially).

obovoid, 1.5–2 mm; pappus-like enations 2(–3), erect to spreading, ± subulate, 0.5–1 mm.

2n

= 36, 68, 72.

= 54.

Parthenium confertum

Parthenium incanum

Phenology Flowering Mar–Oct. Flowering (May–)Jul–Nov.
Habitat Sandy plains, openings in mesquite grasslands Openings in desert scrub, often on limestone soils
Elevation 20–2000 m (100–6600 ft) 1000–1500 m (3300–4900 ft)
Distribution
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AZ; NM; TX; Mexico
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AZ; NM; NV; TX; UT; Mexico
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Source FNA vol. 21, p. 22. FNA vol. 21, p. 21.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Ambrosiinae > Parthenium Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Ambrosiinae > Parthenium
Sibling taxa
P. alpinum, P. argentatum, P. hysterophorus, P. incanum, P. integrifolium, P. ligulatum
P. alpinum, P. argentatum, P. confertum, P. hysterophorus, P. integrifolium, P. ligulatum
Synonyms P. confertum var. divaricatum, P. confertum var. lyratum, P. confertum var. microcephalum
Name authority A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 17: 216. (1882) Kunth: in A. von Humboldt et al., Nov. Gen. Sp. 4(fol.): 204. (1818)
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