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Florida Keys Thoroughwort

Koanophyllon villosum (Sw.) R. King & H. Rob.

Description

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Shrubs, 50–200 cm. Stems densely puberulent to pilose (often minutely gland-dotted). Leaves opposite; petioles 2–8 mm; blades ovate to ovate-deltate or ovate-lanceolate, mostly 2–7(–8) × 1–4 cm, bases truncate to cordate, margins entire or shallowly serrate to crenate, apices obtuse, abaxial faces densely gland-dotted, adaxial sparsely puberulent. Involucres 2.8–3 mm. Phyllaries: outermost elliptic-lanceolate, hispidulous-puberulent, margins herbaceous, mostly eciliate. Corollas white or pinkish white, 2.2–2.6 mm, lobes glandular. Cypselae 1.5–1.8 mm, finely hispidulous-strigose.
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Flora of North America Vol. 21: 542, 543 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Synonym

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Eupatorium villosum Swartz, Prodr., 111. 1788
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Flora of North America Vol. 21: 542, 543 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Koanophyllon villosum

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Koanophyllon villosum, the Florida Keys thoroughwort,[2] or abre camino, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It grows in southern Florida, Cuba, the Bahamas, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and the Islas de la Bahía (part of Honduras).[3][4][5][6][7]

Koanophyllon villosum is a shrub up to 200 cm (80 inches) tall. Flower heads contain up to 15 pink or white disc flowers but no ray flowers.[8][9]

References

  1. ^ The Plant List, Koanophyllon villosum (Sw.) R.M.King & H.Rob.
  2. ^ USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Koanophyllon villosum". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
  3. ^ Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map
  4. ^ Nelson, C. & G. R. Proctor. 1994. Vascular plants of the Caribbean Swan Islands of Honduras. Brenesia 41–42: 73–80.
  5. ^ Long, R. W. & O. K. Lakela. 1971. Flora of Tropical Florida: A Manual of the Seed Plants and Ferns of Southern Peninsular Florida i–xvii, 1–962. University of Miami Press, Coral Cables
  6. ^ Nelson, C. H. 2008. Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares de Honduras 1–1576. Secretaria de Recursos Naturales y Ambiente, Tegucigalpa
  7. ^ EcuRed, Havana info in Spanish
  8. ^ Flora of North America, Koanophyllon villosum (Swartz) R. M. King & H. Robinson, 1974
  9. ^ Leon Levy Native Plant Preserve, Koanophyllon villosum description and photo

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Koanophyllon villosum: Brief Summary

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Koanophyllon villosum, the Florida Keys thoroughwort, or abre camino, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It grows in southern Florida, Cuba, the Bahamas, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and the Islas de la Bahía (part of Honduras).

Koanophyllon villosum is a shrub up to 200 cm (80 inches) tall. Flower heads contain up to 15 pink or white disc flowers but no ray flowers.

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