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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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cc-by-nc-sa-3.0
copyright
Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
bibliographic citation
Flora of North America Vol. 20: 24, 27 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
source
Flora of North America @ eFloras.org
editor
Flora of North America Editorial Committee
project
eFloras.org
original
visit source
partner site
eFloras