Soliva sessilis |
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carpet burrweed, carpet burweed, common soliva, field burrweed, lawn burrweed, lawn burweed, prickly soliva, South American soliva |
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Habit | Plants (1–)2–5(–25+) cm (high or across), ± villous, glabrescent (not stoloniferous, stems purplish, prostrate to ascending, often rooting at nodes). |
Leaves | basal and cauline; blades ± oblanceolate, 1–2(–3)+ cm, 2(–3)-pinnati-palmately lobed. |
Involucres | 2–4(–5) mm diam. |
Pistillate florets | 5–8(–17+) in 1–2+ series. |
Disc florets | 4–8+; corollas 1.5–2.5 mm. |
Heads | mostly scattered along stems. |
Cypselae | bodies ± obovate to lanceolate, (1.5–)2.5–3+ mm, usually winged (wings entire or ± sinuate to incised, each shoulder usually distally projecting as spinelike tooth), faces glabrous or ± scabrellous to hirtellous; pappi 0 (persistent stylar sheaths indurate, spinelike, 1–2+ mm, erect or slightly inflexed). |
2n | = ca. 92 (as S. pterosperma), 110+ (from Portugal), 118–120. |
Soliva sessilis |
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Phenology | Flowering Mar–Jun(–Dec). |
Habitat | Disturbed sites, lawns, roadsides |
Elevation | 0–600 m (0–2000 ft) |
Distribution |
AL; AR; CA; FL; GA; LA; MS; NC; OK; OR; SC; TX; VA; WA; BC; South America [Introduced in North America; introduced also in Europe]
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Source | FNA vol. 19, p. 546. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Anthemideae > Soliva |
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Synonyms | S. daucifolia, S. pterosperma |
Name authority | Ruiz & Pavón: Syst. Veg. Fl. Peruv. Chil., 113, plate 24. (1798) |
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