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Colorado feverfew

Habit Shrubs, 30–100+ cm. Perennials, 1–2 cm (underground caudices 2–5+ cm, branched; plants cespitose or forming mats).
Leaf

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.

blades oblanceolate to spatulate, 5–18+ × 1–2(–4+) mm, margins entire, faces strigilloso-sericeous (gray) and obscurely gland-dotted.

Peduncles

1–3+ mm.

0–4 mm.

Pistillate florets

5;

corolla laminae ovate, 1–1.5 mm.

5;

corolla laminae oval to elliptic, 1–2 mm, retuse.

Disc florets

8–20(–30+).

15–25+.

Phyllaries

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

outer 5 ± ovate, 2.5–3 mm, inner 5 ± orbiculate, 3–4+ mm.

Heads

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

radiate, borne singly.

Cypselae

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

oblanceoloid to pyriform, 3.5–4 mm; pappus-like enations 2, erect to spreading, ± subulate, 0.5–1 mm (a third, ± subulate element sometimes at apex of adaxial face).

2n

= 54.

= 36, 72.

Parthenium incanum

Parthenium ligulatum

Phenology Flowering (May–)Jul–Nov. Flowering May–Jun.
Habitat Openings in desert scrub, often on limestone soils Pale shale or sandstone outcrops with pinyon-juniper
Elevation 1000–1500 m (3300–4900 ft) 1800–2000 m (5900–6600 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; NM; NV; TX; UT; Mexico
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from FNA
CO; UT
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Source FNA vol. 21, p. 21. 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. confertum, P. hysterophorus, P. integrifolium, P. ligulatum
P. alpinum, P. argentatum, P. confertum, P. hysterophorus, P. incanum, P. integrifolium
Synonyms P. alpinum var. ligulatum
Name authority Kunth: in A. von Humboldt et al., Nov. Gen. Sp. 4(fol.): 204. (1818) (M. E. Jones) Barneby: Leafl. W. Bot. 5: 20. (1947)
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