Vernonia lettermannii |
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narrowleaf ironweed, slimleaf ironweed |
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Habit | Plants (2–)5–6+ dm. |
Stems | glabrous or glabrate. |
Leaves | mostly cauline; blades filiform, 5–9+ cm × 1–3+ mm, l/w = 25–50+, abaxially glabrate (pitted, awl-shaped hairs in pits), adaxially puberulent, glabrescent (sometimes pitted). |
Peduncles | 6–20+ mm. |
Involucres | narrowly campanulate, 7–9(–10+) × 4–5+ mm. |
Florets | 10–12+. |
Phyllaries | 30–40+ in 5–6+ series, sparsely tomentose, glabrescent, margins arachno-ciliolate, the outer lanceolate to subulate, 1–3 mm, inner oblong to lanceolate, 5–7+ mm, tips acute. |
Heads | in corymbiform arrays. |
Cypselae | 3–4 mm; pappi fuscous to purplish, outer scales 25+, 0.1–0.5 mm, contrasting with 35+, 6–7+ mm inner bristles. |
2n | = 34. |
Vernonia lettermannii |
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Phenology | Flowering Jul–Aug. |
Habitat | Flood plains, terraces |
Elevation | 100–200 m (300–700 ft) |
Distribution |
AR; OK
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Source | FNA vol. 19, p. 211. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Vernonieae > Vernonia |
Sibling taxa | |
Name authority | Engelmann ex A. Gray: Notes Compositae, 78. (1880) |
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