Flora of North America species comparison

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Sanvitalia procumbens

Mexican creeping zinnia
Stems

procumbent to erect, 3–15 cm.
Leaf

blades ovate to lance-linear, 10–60 × 4–31 mm.
Ray corollas

2–9 mm.
Phyllaries

13–21, unequal.
Cypselae

rays 2.5–3.5 mm with awns 1–3 mm, clearly 3-faced, adaxial faces often 2–3-nerved;

discs strongly dimorphic within single heads: outer 4-angled, wingless, inner ± flattened, 1–2-winged.
2n

= 16, 32.

Sanvitalia procumbens
Phenology Flowering summer–fall.
Habitat Ruderal
Elevation 10–1000 m (0–3300 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; MD; TX; Mexico; Central America [Introduced in North America]
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Discussion

Sanvitalia procumbens has been seen only sporadically in the flora; it probably is not a resident.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 21, p. 71.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Ecliptinae > Sanvitalia
Sibling taxa
S. abertii, S. ocymoides
Name authority Lamarck: J. Hist. Nat. 2: 176, plate 33. (1792)
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