Vernonia texana |
Vernonia arkansana |
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Texas ironweed |
Arkansas ironweed, great ironweed |
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Habit | Plants 4–8(–10+) dm. | Plants 8–12(–20) dm. |
Stems | puberulent, glabrescent. |
scabrellous to pilosulous, glabrescent. |
Leaves | basal and cauline; blades ovate-lanceolate (basal) to narrowly lanceolate (distal), 5–12+ cm × (5–)12–25+ mm, l/w = 3–5 (basal) or 8–17 (distal), abaxially glabrate (pitted, awl-shaped hairs in pits), adaxially puberulent and/or scabrellous. |
mostly cauline; blades lance-linear, 6–14(–20) cm × 7–15(–25) mm, l/w = 7–10(–18), abaxially scabrellous (hairs awl-shaped), resin-gland-dotted, adaxially scaberulous, glabrescent, resin-gland-dotted. |
Peduncles | 1–35 mm. |
2–5 cm. |
Involucres | ± obconic to hemispheric, 4.5–6 × 5–7 mm. |
± hemispheric, 11–15 × 11–15 mm. |
Florets | 12–24+. |
50–100+. |
Phyllaries | 35–45+ in 5–6+ series, glabrescent, margins arachno-ciliolate, the outer lance-deltate, 1–32 mm, inner oblong to linear, 4–5(–6) mm, tips acute or rounded-apiculate. |
(50–)60–70+ in 5–6 series, scabrellous (and resin-gland-dotted), margins ciliolate, the outer lance-ovate, 3–8+ mm, inner lanceolate, 12–15 mm, tips subulate to filiform. |
Heads | in open, paniculiform-scorpioid arrays. |
in ± corymbiform arrays. |
Cypselae | 2–3 mm; pappi usually whitish to stramineous (rarely purplish), outer scales or bristles 20+, 0.3–1+ mm, contrasting or intergrading with 20+, 6–7+ mm inner subulate scales or bristles. |
3–5 mm; pappi fuscous to purplish, outer scales 25–30+, 0.5–1 mm, contrasting with 25–30+, 5–7 mm inner bristles. |
2n | = 34. |
= 34. |
Vernonia texana |
Vernonia arkansana |
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Phenology | Flowering Jun–Aug. | Flowering Aug–Oct. |
Habitat | Pinelands, scrub oak woodlands, sandy or sandy-clay soils | Leas, roadsides, stream banks, in sand or on limestone |
Elevation | 60–200 m (200–700 ft) | 200–300 m (700–1000 ft) |
Distribution |
AR; LA; MS; OK; TX
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AR; KS; MO; OK
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Discussion | Vernonia arkansana was published in April, V. crinita in October 1838. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 19, p. 211. | FNA vol. 19, p. 208. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Vernonieae > Vernonia | Asteraceae > tribe Vernonieae > Vernonia |
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Synonyms | V. angustifolia var. texana | V. crinita |
Name authority | (A. Gray) Small: Fl. S.E. U.S., 1338. (1903) | de Candolle: in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle, Prodr. 7: 264. (1838) |
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