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Melampodium leucanthum
Torr. & A. Gray
Family:
Asteraceae
Plains Blackfoot
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FNA
Resources
John L. Strother in Flora of North America (vol. 21)
Perennials or subshrubs,
12-40(-60) cm.
Leaf blades
lanceolate, linear-oblong, or linear, 20-35(-45) × 1-10(-12) mm, lengths 3-8+ times widths, pinnately lobed, lobes 1-6, ultimate margins entire.
Peduncles
3-7 cm.
Outer phyllaries
5, connate
1
/2-
3
/5 their lengths, ovate, 5-7 mm.
Ray florets
8-13; corollas cream-white (sometimes purplish abaxially), laminae oblong-elliptic, 7-13 × 2.5-8 mm.
Disc florets
25-50.
Fruits
1.5-2.6 mm.
2
n
= 20, 40. Flowering Mar-Oct. Open sites, grasslands, roadcuts, arid or desert scrublands; (200-)1000-2000(-2500) m; Ariz., Colo., Kans., N.Mex., Okla., Tex.; Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Sonora).
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