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Pityopsis flexuosa
(Nash) Small
Family:
Asteraceae
Zigzag Silk-Grass
[
Heterotheca feuxuosa
(Nash) V. L. Harms]
FNA
Resources
John C. Semple in Flora of North America (vol. 20)
Perennials,
20-50 cm; rhizomes 1-5 cm.
Stems
1-6, ascending, sometimes reddish brown, usually simple, flexuous, slender, moderately sericeous, glabrescent.
Leaves:
basal equaling or shorter than cauline, persistent through winter, withering by flowering; cauline spreading to ascending, sessile, blades linear-lanceolate, 30-70 × 3-7 mm, apices acute, faces moderately sericeous, glabrescent; distal slightly reduced.
Heads
3-20 per stem, in corymbiform arrays.
Peduncles
sparsely bracteolate, 1-11 cm, tomentose, sparsely, minutely glandular; bracteoles reduced distally.
Involucres
narrowly campanulate, (7-)8-11 mm (equaling pappi).
Phyllaries
in 4-6 series, margins hyaline, sometimes reddish distally, fimbriate (midnerves pronounced), apices acute, faces sparsely pilose, eglandular or sparsely, minutely stipitate-glandular.
Ray florets
9-13; laminae 5-8 mm.
Disc florets
25-45; corollas 5.5-7 mm, tubes and proximal throats sparsely puberulent, lobes 0.5 mm, glabrous or glabrate.
Cypselae
fusiform, 3-4 mm, ribbed (dark between ribs), faces sparsely strigose;
pappi:
outer of linear scales 0.3-1 mm, inner of 30-50 bristles 5.5-7 mm.
2
n
= 18.
Flowering late summer-fall. Sandy, open soils, open pine-oak woods, clearings; 0-50 m; Fla.
Pityopsis flexuosa
is known only from the vicinity of Tallahassee.
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This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services [MG-70-19-0057-19].
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