Verbesina occidentalis |
Verbesina nana |
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yellow crownbeard |
dwarf crownbeard |
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Habit | Plants 80–200+ cm (perennating bases ± erect, internodes winged). | Plants mostly 7–15+ cm (perennating bases ± erect, internodes not winged). |
Leaves | all or mostly opposite (distal sometimes alternate); blades ± ovate or lance-deltate to lanceolate, 6–12(–16+) × 3–6(–10+) cm, bases ± cuneate, margins coarsely toothed to subentire, apices usually acute to attenuate, sometimes rounded, faces scabrellous. |
all or mostly opposite (distal sometimes alternate); blades ± deltate to rhombic, 3–8+ × 2–5+ cm, bases ± cuneate, margins raggedly toothed, apices obtuse to acute, faces strigoso-sericeous. |
Involucres | campanulate to turbinate, 3–5+ mm diam. |
shallowly bowl-shaped, 15–25+ mm diam. |
Ray florets | (0–)1–3(–5); laminae 10–15(–20+) mm. |
12–16+; laminae 10–12+ mm. |
Disc florets | 8–15+; corollas yellow. |
80–150+; corollas yellow to orange. |
Phyllaries | 8–12+ in 2 series, ± erect, spatulate to oblanceolate, 3–7+ mm. |
28–35+ in 2–3 series, ± erect, linear to lanceolate, 8–12+ mm. |
Heads | 20–100+ in corymbiform-paniculiform arrays. |
borne singly or 2–3 together. |
Cypselae | dark brown to black, oblanceolate, 5 mm, faces strigose; pappi 3–4 mm. |
blackish, ± elliptic, 6.5–8 mm, faces ± strigillose; pappi 0.5–1+ mm. |
2n | = 34. |
= 68. |
Verbesina occidentalis |
Verbesina nana |
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Phenology | Flowering Aug–Oct. | Flowering May(–Oct). |
Habitat | Bottomlands, margins of thickets, waste places | Silty flats, roadsides, desert scrub |
Elevation | 10–300 m (0–1000 ft) | 1000–2000 m (3300–6600 ft) |
Distribution |
AL; DC; DE; FL; GA; IL; KY; MD; MO; MS; NC; OH; OK; SC; TN; TX; VA; WV
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NM; TX; Mexico (Coahuila) |
Source | FNA vol. 21, p. 109. | FNA vol. 21, p. 110. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Ecliptinae > Verbesina | Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Ecliptinae > Verbesina |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Siegesbeckia occidentalis | Ximenesia encelioides var. nana |
Name authority | (Linnaeus) Walter: Fl. Carol., 213. (1788) | (A. Gray) B. L. Robinson & Greenman: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 34: 543. (1899) |
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