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accepted id

Symphyotrichum laeve (Linnaeus) Á. Löve & D. Löve

taxon name

Symphyotrichum laeve

taxon authority

(Linnaeus) Á. Löve & D. Löve

taxon rank

species

publication

FNA Editorial Committee. 2006. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 20: Magnoliophyta: Asteridae, part 7: Asteraceae, part 2. Oxford University Press, New York.

taxon status

accepted

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taxon name

Symphyotrichum laeve

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taxon authority

(Linnaeus) Á. Löve & D. Löve

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taxon rank

species

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taxon status

accepted

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common name

smooth aster (English)

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smooth blue aster (English)

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glaucous aster (English)

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aster lisse (French)

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Smooth aster (English)

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aster lisse (English)

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VasCan taxon numeric id

3545

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Symphyotrichum sect. Symphyotrichum

parent taxon

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taxon habit

herb

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GBIF taxon key

8421156

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Global Biodiversity Information Facility

IUCN Redlist Category

NE

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Global Biodiversity Information Facility

distribution

CA-AB

Alta.

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CA-BC

B.C.

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CA-MB

Man.

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CA-NB

N.B.

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CA-ON

Ont.

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CA-QC

Que.

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CA-SK

Sask.

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CA-YT

Yukon

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US-AL

Ala.

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US-AR

Ark.

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US-CA

Calif.

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US-CO

Colo.

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US-CT

Conn.

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US-DC

D.C.

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US-DE

Del.

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US-FL

Fla.

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US-GA

Ga.

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US-ID

Idaho

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US-IL

Ill.

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US-IN

Ind.

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US-IA

Iowa

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US-KS

Kans.

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US-KY

Ky.

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US-LA

La.

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US-ME

Maine

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US-MA

Mass.

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US-MD

Md.

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US-MI

Mich.

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US-MN

Minn.

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US-MS

Miss.

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US-MO

Mo.

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US-MT

Mont.

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US-NC

N.C.

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US-ND

N.Dak.

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US-NH

N.H.

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US-NJ

N.J.

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US-NM

N.Mex.

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US-NY

N.Y.

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US-NE

Nebr.

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US-NV

Nev.

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US-OH

Ohio

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US-PA

Pa.

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US-RI

R.I.

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US-SC

S.C.

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US-SD

S.Dak.

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US-TN

Tenn.

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US-TX

Tex.

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US-UT

Utah

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US-VA

Va.

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US-VT

Vt.

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US-WV

W.Va.

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US-WA

Wash.

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US-WI

Wis.

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US-WY

Wyo.

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ne Mexico

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in other areas of Mexico

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Central America

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Europe

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taxon description fragment

stoutly short-rhizomatous, with thick, woody caudices or a few, long rhizomes.

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d0_s1

Stems 1–5+, erect (straight, glaucous, sometimes reddish proximally), glabrous, sometimes sparsely hirsute distally.

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d0_s2

Leaves (glaucous) thick, firm, ± fleshy, margins crenate-serrate or serrulate or entire, scabridulous, apices mucronulate, faces glabrous;

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d0_s3

basal usually withering by flowering or sometimes persistent (var. purpuratum), petiolate (petioles ± winged, bases dilated, sheathing), blades spatulate or oblong to ovate or lanceolate-ovate, 30–200 × 10–25 (–30) mm, bases attenuate or cuneate to rounded, margins crenate-serrate to serrulate, apices acute to obtuse or rounded;

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d0_s4

proximal cauline often withering by flowering, petiolate or subsessile or sessile (petioles narrowly to broadly winged, clasping), blades ovate or oblong-ovate to lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, sometimes ± panduriform, (40–) 80–150 (–180) × (10–) 20–45 mm, bases attenuate to rounded or ± shallowly auriculate-clasping, margins entire or shallowly crenate-serrate, minutely scabrous, apices acute or obtuse, callus-pointed;

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d0_s5

distal sessile, blades lanceovate or lanceolate to linear, 7–45 × 1–14 mm, progressively reduced distally (abruptly so in arrays), bases auriculate and ± clasping to rounded, margins entire.

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d0_s6

Heads in broad, sometimes ± flat-topped, paniculiform arrays, branches stiffly ascending (rarely arching), leafy with small, gradually reduced branch leaves.

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d0_s7

Peduncles 0.2–6+ cm, glaucous, glabrous or puberulent in lines, bracts 3–6, densely spaced, subulate or linear-lanceolate to linear, subclasping, apices sometimes purplish, grading into phyllaries.

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d0_s8

Involucres campanulate to cylindro-campanulate, (4.2–) 5–7 (–8) mm.

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d0_s9

Phyllaries in 4–6 series, appressed, subulate or lanceolate (outer) to oblong-lanceolate or linear-lancolate or oblanceolate, unequal (sometimes appearing subequal), bases indurate 1/2–3/4, margins scarious, erose, hyaline, ciliolate distally, green zones mostly diamond-shaped to ± lanceolate (some inner, or most in var. geyeri), apices acute to acuminate, sometimes ± obtuse, red-mucronate or apiculate, faces glabrous.

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d0_s10

Ray-florets (11–) 13–23 (–34);

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d0_s11

corollas usually pale to dark blue or purple, seldom white, laminae (6–) 7.2–11.3 (–14.6) × 1.5–2.5 mm.

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d0_s12

Disc-florets (17–) 19–33 (–43);

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d0_s13

corollas yellow turning purplish red, 3.5–6.1 mm, tubes slightly shorter than funnelform throats, lobes triangular, (0.4–) 0.6–1 mm.

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d0_s14

Cypselae deep purple to brown, oblong-obovoid, compressed, 2–3.5 mm, 4–5-nerved, faces glabrous or glabrate;

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d0_s15

pappi tawny to red or rose-tinged, 5–7 mm.

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d0_s16

morphology statement

stem caudex

thick

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d0_s1

stem caudex

woody

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d0_s1

long

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d0_s1

few

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d0_s1

1

5

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d0_s2

orientation

erect

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d0_s2

glabrous

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d0_s2

hirsute

sometimes sparsely; distally

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d0_s2

thick

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d0_s3

firm

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d0_s3

fleshy

more or less

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d0_s3

crenate-serrate

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d0_s3

serrulate

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d0_s3

entire

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d0_s3

scabridulous

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d0_s3

mucronulate

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d0_s3

glabrous

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d0_s3

withering

usually

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d0_s4

flowering

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d0_s4

persistent

sometimes

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d0_s4

petiolate

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d0_s4

oblong

ovate or lanceolate-ovate

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d0_s4

30

200

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d0_s4

25

30

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d0_s4

10

25

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d0_s4

cuneate

rounded

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d0_s4

crenate-serrate to serrulate

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d0_s4

acute

obtuse or rounded

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d0_s4

flowering

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d0_s4

persistent

sometimes

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d0_s4

petiolate

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d0_s4

oblong

ovate or lanceolate-ovate

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d0_s4

30

200

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d0_s4

25

30

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d0_s4

10

25

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d0_s4

cuneate

rounded

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d0_s4

crenate-serrate to serrulate

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d0_s4

acute

obtuse or rounded

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d0_s4

flowering

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d0_s4

persistent

sometimes

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d0_s4

petiolate

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d0_s4

oblong

ovate or lanceolate-ovate

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d0_s4

30

200

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d0_s4

25

30

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d0_s4

10

25

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d0_s4

cuneate

rounded

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d0_s4

crenate-serrate to serrulate

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d0_s4

acute

obtuse or rounded

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d0_s4

flowering

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d0_s4

persistent

sometimes

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d0_s4

petiolate

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d0_s4

oblong

ovate or lanceolate-ovate

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d0_s4

30

200

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d0_s4

25

30

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d0_s4

10

25

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d0_s4

cuneate

rounded

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d0_s4

crenate-serrate to serrulate

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d0_s4

acute

obtuse or rounded

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d0_s4

withering

often

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d0_s5

callus-pointed

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d0_s5

flowering

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d0_s5

petiolate

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d0_s5

subsessile

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d0_s5

sessile

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d0_s5

oblong-ovate

lanceolate or linear-lanceolate

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d0_s5

panduriform

sometimes more or less

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d0_s5

40

80

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d0_s5

150

180

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d0_s5

80

150

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d0_s5

10

20

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d0_s5

20

45

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d0_s5

attenuate

rounded

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d0_s5

entire

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d0_s5

crenate-serrate

shallowly

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d0_s5

scabrous

minutely

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d0_s5

flowering

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d0_s5

petiolate

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d0_s5

subsessile

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d0_s5

sessile

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d0_s5

oblong-ovate

lanceolate or linear-lanceolate

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d0_s5

panduriform

sometimes more or less

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d0_s5

40

80

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d0_s5

150

180

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d0_s5

80

150

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d0_s5

10

20

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d0_s5

20

45

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d0_s5

attenuate

rounded

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d0_s5

entire

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d0_s5

crenate-serrate

shallowly

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d0_s5

scabrous

minutely

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d0_s5

fixation

auriculate-clasping

more or less shallowly

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d0_s5

entire

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d0_s5

crenate-serrate

shallowly

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d0_s5

scabrous

minutely

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d0_s5

acute

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d0_s5

obtuse

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d0_s5

fixation

auriculate-clasping

more or less shallowly

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d0_s5

entire

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d0_s5

crenate-serrate

shallowly

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d0_s5

scabrous

minutely

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d0_s5

acute

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d0_s5

obtuse

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d0_s5

sessile

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d0_s6

lanceolate

linear

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d0_s6

7

45

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d0_s6

1

14

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d0_s6

reduced

progressively; distally

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d0_s6

auriculate

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d0_s6

fixation

clasping

more or less

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d0_s6

rounded

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d0_s6

entire

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d0_s6

inflorescence branch

orientation

ascending

in broad , sometimes more or less flat-topped , paniculiform arrays; stiffly

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d0_s7

inflorescence branch

leafy

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d0_s7

small

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d0_s7

reduced

gradually

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d0_s7

0.2

6

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d0_s8

glaucous

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d0_s8

glabrous

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d0_s8

puberulent

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d0_s8

3

6

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d0_s8

arrangement

spaced

densely

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d0_s8

linear-lanceolate

linear

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d0_s8

subclasping

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d0_s8

purplish

sometimes

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d0_s8

campanulate

cylindro-campanulate

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d0_s9

atypical some measurement

4.2

5

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d0_s9

atypical some measurement

7

8

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d0_s9

5

7

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d0_s9

indurate

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d0_s10

1/2

3/4

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d0_s10

scarious

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d0_s10

erose

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d0_s10

hyaline

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d0_s10

ciliolate

distally

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d0_s10

acute

acuminate

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d0_s10

obtuse

sometimes more or less

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d0_s10

red-mucronate

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d0_s10

apiculate

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d0_s10

glabrous

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d0_s10

inflorescence flower ray-floret

11

13

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d0_s11

inflorescence flower ray-floret

23

34

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d0_s11

inflorescence flower ray-floret

13

23

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d0_s11

usually pale

dark blue or purple

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d0_s12

white

seldom

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d0_s12

6

7.2

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d0_s12

11.3

14.6

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d0_s12

7.2

11.3

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d0_s12

1.5

2.5

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d0_s12

inflorescence flower

17

19

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d0_s13

inflorescence flower

33

43

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d0_s13

inflorescence flower

19

33

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d0_s13

yellow turning purplish red

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d0_s14

3.5

6.1

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d0_s14

inflorescence flower corolla tube

height

slightly shorter

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d0_s14

inflorescence flower corolla lobe

triangular

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d0_s14

inflorescence flower corolla lobe

atypical some measurement

0.4

0.6

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d0_s14

inflorescence flower corolla lobe

0.6

1

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d0_s14

deep

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d0_s15

purple

brown

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d0_s15

oblong-obovoid

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d0_s15

compressed

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d0_s15

2

3.5

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d0_s15

4-5-nerved

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d0_s15

glabrous

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d0_s15

glabrate

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d0_s15

fruit pappus

tawny

red or rose-tinged

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d0_s16

fruit pappus

5

7

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