Flora of North America species comparison

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Schkuhria multiflora

many-flower false threadleaf
Habit Plants mostly 3–12(–25+) cm.
Stems

± decumbent-ascending to erect.
Leaves

mostly 1–3 cm;

blades linear or lobed (lobes 3–7+, linear to filiform), faces puberulent and gland-dotted.
Peduncles

mostly 5–25 mm.
Involucres

± obconic, 5–6 mm.
Ray florets

0.
Disc florets

15–30+;

corollas yellowish, 1–2 mm.
Phyllaries

7–10+, green to purple, weakly carinate, oblanceolate to obovate, ± hirsutulous and gland-dotted.
Cypselae

blackish to buff, 3 mm, hispidulous to villous, especially on angles and/or at bases;

pappi of 8 white to tawny or purplish, obovate-rounded or oblanceolate to ± quadrate, apically truncate or acute scales 1–2 mm.
2n

= 22.

Schkuhria multiflora
Phenology Flowering Aug–Oct.
Habitat Roadsides, sandy slopes, and washes
Elevation 1600–2500 m (5200–8200 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; CA; CO; NM; TX; South America; Mexico (Chihuahua)
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Source FNA vol. 21, p. 382.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Chaenactidinae > Schkuhria
Sibling taxa
S. pinnata
Synonyms Bahia neomexicana, S. neomexicana
Name authority Hooker & Arnott: J. Bot. (Hooker) 3: 322. (1841)
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