Krigia Schreber (Q3121)
Krigia is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Cichorieae
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Krigia Schreber
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Krigia is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Cichorieae
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taxon/id/Krigia Schreber
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Krigia Schreber
Krigia
Schreber
FNA Editorial Committee. 2006. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 19: Magnoliophyta: Asteridae, part 6: Asteraceae, part 1. Oxford University Press, New York.
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taprooted, fibrous-rooted, or (in K. dandelion) with rhizomes bearing globose tubers.
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Stems 1–50+, usually erect, rarely decumbent, scapiform or branched distally, glabrous or sparingly villous (proximally), glandular-villous (especially distally).
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Leaves mostly basal, sometimes cauline;
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petiolate (petioles often winged);
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blades linear to lanceolate, oblanceolate, or spatulate, margins entire, denticulate, or irregularly pinnately lobed, apices acute to obtuse (faces glabrous or glandular-villous, usually glaucous in K. dandelion and K. biflora);
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distal cauline usually slightly reduced to bractlike.
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Heads borne singly.
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Peduncles not distally inflated, ebracteate (from rosettes and from axils of cauline leaves or bracts).
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Involucres turbinate to campanulate, 2–12 mm diam.
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Phyllaries (4–) 5–18 in 1–2 series, (sometimes reflexed in fruit) linear-lanceolate to ovate, equal, herbaceous, apices acute (faces glabrous).
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Receptacles flat or low-convex, pitted, glabrous, epaleate.
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corollas yellow to orange (equaling or surpassing phyllaries).
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Cypselae brown or reddish-brown, columnar, obconic, barrel-shaped, or fusiform, not beaked, nerves or ribs 10–20, glabrous;
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pappi 0, or persistent, often fragile, usually in 2 series, distinct, outer of 5+, yellowish or brownish scales, inner of 5–45, barbellulate bristles (pappi 0 in K. cespitosa, 0 or 1 series of tiny scales in K. wrightii).
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x = (4) 5 (6, 9).
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lanceolate oblanceolate or spatulate
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lanceolate oblanceolate or spatulate
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lanceolate oblanceolate or spatulate
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