Vernonia glauca |
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Appalachian ironweed, broad-leaf ironweed |
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Habit | Plants 6–10+ dm. |
Stems | sparsely appressed-puberulent, glabrescent. |
Leaves | mostly cauline; blades lanceolate to oblanceolate, 10–15(–18+) cm × 30–45(–70+) mm, l/w = 2.5–3.5(–4), abaxially scabrellous (hairs awl-shaped), resin-gland-dotted or not, adaxially glabrous or sparsely puberulent. |
Peduncles | 2–35 mm. |
Involucres | ± hemispheric, 5–8 × 7–8 mm. |
Florets | 30–45+. |
Phyllaries | 40–60 in 5–6 series, sparsely puberulent to tomentulose, glabrescent, margins ciliolate, the outer lance-deltate to subulate, 1–3 mm, inner oblong, 4–7+ mm, tips acuminate to subulate or filiform. |
Heads | in corymbiform to paniculiform arrays. |
Cypselae | 3–4 mm; pappi stramineous to whitish, outer subulate scales or bristles 30, 0.5–1.5+ mm, intergrading with 30+, 6–8 mm inner subulate scales or bristles. |
2n | = 34. |
Vernonia glauca |
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Phenology | Flowering Jul–Sep. |
Habitat | Dry fields, marshes |
Elevation | 10–400 m (0–1300 ft) |
Distribution |
AL; DC; DE; GA; MA; MD; NC; NJ; PA; SC; VA
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Source | FNA vol. 19, p. 209. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Vernonieae > Vernonia |
Sibling taxa | |
Synonyms | Serratula glauca |
Name authority | (Linnaeus) Willdenow: Sp. Pl. 3: 1633. (1803) |
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