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Shortleaf Baccharis

Baccharis brachyphylla A. Gray

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Baccharis brachyphylla is characterized by the densely branching habit, narrow stems, and small, linear-lanceolate leaves, and hispidulous hairs on stems, leaves, phyllaries, and cypselae.
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
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Flora of North America Vol. 20: 24, 27 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Shrubs or subshrubs, 20–100 cm (finely and densely branched from bases). Stems erect, green, slender and wandlike, striate-angled, glabrate proximally, hispidulous distally (near heads). Leaves present at flowering (reduced , sparse); sessile; blades (1-nerved) linear to linear-lanceolate, 5–17 × 1–2 mm (reduced distally to subulate bracts), margins entire, apices acute, faces glabrous (sometimes minutely papillose). Heads (on racemiform lateral branches) in paniculiform arrays. Involucres funnelform or campanulate; staminate 3–5.2 mm, pistillate 4–6 mm. Phyllaries lanceolate, 1–4 mm, margins scarious, medians green (hispid), apices acute to acuminate. Staminate florets (8–)12–18(–29); corollas 3.3–4.2 mm. Pistillate florets 8–18; corollas 2–2.8 mm. Cypselae 1.5–2.5 mm, 5-nerved, hispid; pappi 4.5–7 mm. 2n = 18.
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Flora of North America Vol. 20: 24, 27 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Baccharis brachyphylla

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Baccharis brachyphylla is a North American species of shrub in the family Asteraceae, known by the common name shortleaf baccharis or false willow.[2] It is native to the southwestern United States (southern California, southern Nevada, Arizona, southern New Mexico, and western Texas)[3] and northern Mexico (Baja California, Chihuahua, Sonora).[2] It grows in desert habitats such as arroyos and canyons.[2][4][5]

This is a shrub producing erect, branching green stems up to a meter tall. The leaves are linear or thinly lance-shaped and less than 2 centimetres (0.79 in) long. The inflorescence is a wide array of flower heads. A dioecious species, the male and female plants produce different flower types which are similar in appearance. The flowers and foliage are glandular. Female flowers yield fruits which are ribbed achenes, each with a fuzzy body 2–3 millimetres (0.08–0.12 in) long and a pappus about 5 millimetres (0.20 in) long.[2]

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Baccharis brachyphylla: Brief Summary

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Baccharis brachyphylla is a North American species of shrub in the family Asteraceae, known by the common name shortleaf baccharis or false willow. It is native to the southwestern United States (southern California, southern Nevada, Arizona, southern New Mexico, and western Texas) and northern Mexico (Baja California, Chihuahua, Sonora). It grows in desert habitats such as arroyos and canyons.

This is a shrub producing erect, branching green stems up to a meter tall. The leaves are linear or thinly lance-shaped and less than 2 centimetres (0.79 in) long. The inflorescence is a wide array of flower heads. A dioecious species, the male and female plants produce different flower types which are similar in appearance. The flowers and foliage are glandular. Female flowers yield fruits which are ribbed achenes, each with a fuzzy body 2–3 millimetres (0.08–0.12 in) long and a pappus about 5 millimetres (0.20 in) long.

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