Parthenium incanum |
Parthenium ligulatum |
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mariola |
Colorado feverfew |
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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 |
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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 |
AZ; NM; NV; TX; UT; Mexico
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CO; UT |
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 | ||
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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