EcoFlora - Egletes viscosa

Egletes viscosa Less.
Family: Asteraceae Erect Tropical Daisy [Cotula viscosa L., moreEgletes viscosa var. dissecta Shinners]	FNA Resources Guy L. Nesom in Flora of North America (vol. 20) Plants aromatic, densely viscid with stipitate-glandular trichomes, mixed with much longer, translucent, non-glandular hairs 1-3 mm . Stems erect to decumbent. Leaf blades sublyrate to pinnatifid, 20-70(-120) mm . Ray laminae elliptic-obovate, 0.5-0.8(-1.6) mm wide. Disc corollas 1.2-1.5 mm. Cypselae 1.2-1.7 mm, short-stipitate-glandular; pappi uneven rings. 2n = 54. Flowering Jan-Mar. Palm groves, often in seasonally submerged areas with mud or clay, fields, roadside ditches; 0-10 m; Tex.; Mexico; West Indies; n South America. In the flora area, Egletes viscosa is known only from Cameron County, southernmost Texas. It grows in Tamaulipas, Veracruz, and coastal localities in other Mexican states.
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