Pityopsis falcata (Pursh) Nuttall (Q2280)

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Pityopsis falcata is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Pityopsis
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Pityopsis falcata (Pursh) Nuttall
Pityopsis falcata is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Pityopsis

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    taxon/id/Pityopsis falcata (Pursh) Nuttall
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    Pityopsis falcata (Pursh) Nuttall
    Pityopsis falcata
    (Pursh) Nuttall
    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.
    accepted
    pityopsis falciforme (French)
    sickle-leaved goldenaster (English)
    sickle-leaved silkgrass (English)
    1 reference
    Newmaster, S.G. & S. Ragupathy. 2005. Flora Ontario - Integrated Botanical Information System (FOIBIS), Phase I. University of Guelph, Canada. http://www.uoguelph.ca/foibis http://www.uoguelph.ca/foibis/
    Flowering summer–fall.
    open areas
    sandy glacial deposits
    pine barrens
    pinus rigida
    rhizomes 0.5–5 cm.
    Stems erect, sometimes reddish-brown, sometimes branched distally, striate, sparsely to densely long-sericeous.
    Leaves: basal usually withering by flowering, shorter than cauline;
    cauline spreading to ascending, sessile, blades linear, falcate, often conduplicate, apices acuminate;
    proximal 50–90 × 2–7 mm, glabrate to sparsely sericeous;
    distal somewhat smaller, glabrate except for margins.
    Heads (2–) 4–10 (–25) in corymbiform arrays.
    Peduncles sparsely bracteolate, 1–4 cm, white-villous.
    Involucres turbino-campanulate, 5–8 mm.
    Phyllaries in 5–6 series, apices with tufts of hairs, faces sparsely strigose.
    Ray-florets 9–15;
    corolla laminae 5–8 mm.
    Disc-florets 30–60;
    corollas 4.5–6 mm, sparsely pilose near base of limbs, lobes 0.5 mm, sparsely pilose.
    Cypselae fusiform, 3–4 mm, ribbed, faces strigose;
    pappi: outer of linear-setiform scales 0.5–1 mm, inner of 30–40 bristles 4–6 mm. 2n = 18.