Vernonia lindheimeri
Vernonia blodgettii
woolly ironweed
Florida ironweed
± pannose.
glabrous or glabrate.
mostly cauline;
blades linear, 5–8 cm × 2–4 mm, l/w = 17–25(–40), abaxially densely sericeo-tomentose, adaxially usually glabrate, sometimes sparsely arachno-tomentose.
mostly cauline;
blades lance-linear to linear, 3–7+ cm × 2–8+ mm, l/w = 7–15+, abaxially scabrellous (hairs appressed, awl-shaped), resin-gland-dotted, adaxially scabrellous, glabrescent, resin-gland-dotted.
5–35 mm.
12–35 mm.
± obconic to campanulate, 6–10 × 5–8 mm.
campanulate to obconic, 6–8 × 6–10 mm.
12–24+.
18–25+.
40–50+ in 5–6+ series, sericeo-tomentose, including margins, the outer lance-ovate, 1–2 mm, the inner lanceolate to lance-linear, 6–7(–9+) mm, tips acute.
30–40+ in 4–5 series, puberulent, margins arachno-ciliate, the outer lance-ovate, 2–3 mm, inner lance-oblong to linear-oblong, 6–7 mm, tips acute or rounded-apiculate.
in corymbiform arrays.
in open, corymbiform to paniculiform arrays.
3–4 mm;
pappi stramineous to purplish, outer scales 20+, 0.6–1.1 mm, contrasting with 20+, 6–7+ mm inner bristles.
2.5–3+ mm;
pappi stramineous to whitish, outer scales 25–30, 0.5–1.1 mm, contrasting with 30–40+, 5–7+ mm inner bristles.
= 34.
= 34.
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