Vernonia missurica |
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Missouri ironweed |
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Habit | Plants 6–12(–20+) dm. |
Stems | puberulent. |
Leaves | mostly cauline; blades elliptic to lance-ovate or lanceolate, 6–16(–20+) cm × 18–48+ mm, l/w = 2.5–4(–6+), abaxially usually puberulent to tomentose or pannose (hairs ± erect, ± curled), seldom glabrate, resin-gland-dotted, adaxially scabrellous, glabrescent, not resin-gland-dotted. |
Peduncles | 3–35 mm. |
Involucres | broadly campanulate to urceolate, (6–)7–10+ × 5–9+ mm. |
Florets | 30–55+. |
Phyllaries | 50–70+ in 6–7 series, sparsely scabrellous, glabrescent (seldom resin-gland-dotted), margins ciliolate, the outer lanceolate, 1–2 mm, inner linear-oblong to oblong, 6–7(–9+) mm, tips acute or rounded-apiculate. |
Heads | in corymbiform-scorpioid arrays. |
Cypselae | 3.5–4; pappi stramineous to whitish, outer scales 25–30, 0.5–1.1 mm, contrasting with 35–40+, 6–8+ mm inner bristles. |
2n | = 34. |
Vernonia missurica |
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Phenology | Flowering Jul–Sep. |
Habitat | Prairies, loamy to sandy soils |
Elevation | 30–200 m (100–700 ft) |
Distribution |
AL; AR; GA; IA; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MI; MO; MS; OK; TN; TX
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Source | FNA vol. 19, p. 212. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Vernonieae > Vernonia |
Sibling taxa | |
Name authority | Rafinesque: Herb. Raf., 28. (1833) |
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