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Brickellia grandiflora
Brickellia grandiflora
(Hook.) Nutt.
Family:
Asteraceae
tasselflower brickellbush,
more...
mountain brickellbush, tasselflower brickellia
[
Brickellia grandiflora var. petiolaris
A. Gray,
more
Coleosanthus grandiflorus
(Hook.) Kuntze
]
Max Licher
Flora of North America
General Description
Resources
Randall W. Scott in Flora of North America (vol. 21)
Perennials,
30-95 cm (taproots thickened).
Stems
branched, puberulent.
Leaves
opposite or alternate; petioles 10-70 mm; blades 3-nerved from bases, deltate-ovate, lance-ovate, or subcordate, 15-120 × 20-70 mm, bases acute, truncate, or subcordate, margins crenate, dentate, or serrate, apices attenuate, faces puberulent and gland-dotted.
Heads
(nodding in flower and fruit) in loose, corymbiform or paniculiform arrays.
Peduncles
4-30 mm, pubescent.
Involucres
cylindric or obconic, 7-12 mm.
Phyllaries
30-40 in 5-7 series, greenish, 4-5-striate, unequal, margins scarious; outer lance-ovate to lanceolate (pubescent, margins ciliate, apices long-acuminate), inner lanceolate to lance-linear (glabrous, apices acute to acuminate).
Florets
mostly 20-40(-70); corollas pale yellow-green, 6.5-7.5 mm.
Cypselae
4-5 mm, hispidulous to hirtellous;
pappi
of 20-30 white, barbellate bristles.
2
n
= 18. Flowering Jul-Oct. Rocky hillsides, shaded forests, dry slopes, canyons; 1200-3000 m; Ariz., Ark., Calif., Colo., Idaho, Kans., Mo., Mont., Nebr., Nev., N.Mex., Oreg., Tex., Utah, Wash., Wyo.
Plant
: Perennial 3-7 dm; root ± tuber-like; stems simple, puberulent
Leaves
: generally opposite, simple, veiny; petiole 5-30 mm; blade 3-12 cm, lanceolate to triangular-cordate, crenate to dentate, gland-dotted, puberulent
INFLORESCENCE
: primary inflorescence a head, each resembling a flower; heads 12-15 mm, ± loosely clustered, nodding; involucre widely cylindric to bell-shaped; phyllaries 30-40, loosely overlapping, outer generally lanceolate, puberulent, greenish, tips long-tapered, generally reflexed or curled, inner ± lanceolate, 5-7-veined
Flowers
: 20-40; corollas cylindric, ± white or tinged red; anther bases rounded or slightly cordate, tips ovate; style branches long, club-shaped, tips rounded
Fruit
: ± 4 mm, 10-ribbed, generally cylindric, hairy; pappus generally of many, generally scabrous bristles
Misc
: Among rocks, shaded forest; 1500-2700 m.
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