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Rugelia nudicaulis

Rugel's indianplantain
Leaf

blades 5–15+ × 3–10+ cm, marginal teeth 17–22 on each side.
Corollas

8–10 mm.
Phyllaries

10–13(–14) mm.
Cypselae

4–6 mm;

pappi 8–10+ mm.
2n

= 56.

Rugelia nudicaulis
Phenology Flowering summer.
Habitat Forests, edges of openings in spruce-fir and hardwood regions
Elevation 1400–2000 m (4600–6600 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
NC; TN
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Discussion

Of conservation concern.

Rugelia nudicaulis is known mostly from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park on the North Carolina–Tennessee border.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 20, p. 626.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Senecioneae > Rugelia
Synonyms Senecio rugelia, Cacalia rugelia
Name authority Shuttleworth ex Chapman: Fl. S.E. U.S., 246. (1860)
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