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Published In: Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, new series 7: 287–288. 1840. (Oct-Dec 1840) (Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., n.s.) Name publication detailView in BotanicusView in Biodiversity Heritage Library
 

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Project Data     (Last Modified On 7/9/2009)
Status: Native

 

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2. Brickellia grandiflora (Hook.) Nutt. (tassel flower)

Pl. 264 i–k; Map 1107

Stems 30–90 cm long, moderately to densely pubescent with minute, sometimes spreading hairs. Leaves all or mostly opposite, the uppermost leaves sometimes alternate, well spaced, long-petiolate. Leaf blades 2–7 cm long, ovate-triangular to triangular, truncate to cordate at the base, narrowed or tapered to a sharply pointed tip, the margins bluntly toothed or scalloped, the surfaces short-hairy and with scattered glands, the undersurface sparsely to moderately and finely hairy, sometimes only along the veins, also moderately glandular. Inflorescences small panicles or appearing as stalked clusters at the branch tips, occasionally also appearing axillary, the heads usually nodding. Involucre 7–12 mm long, narrowly cup-shaped to narrowly bell-shaped. Disc florets 18–45. Corollas 6–8 mm long. Pappus bristles minutely barbed. Fruits 3–5 mm long. 2n=18. July–October.

Scattered in the Ozark and Ozark Border Divisions (Washington to California east to Missouri and Texas). Glades, ledges and tops of bluffs, on limestone and dolomite substrates.

Steyermark (1963) noted that plants can have a somewhat fetid odor when bruised or crushed.

 


 

 
 
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