Gamochaeta purpurea (Linnaeus) Cabrera (Q2678)

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Gamochaeta purpurea is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Gamochaeta
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Gamochaeta purpurea (Linnaeus) Cabrera
Gamochaeta purpurea is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Gamochaeta

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    taxon/id/Gamochaeta purpurea (Linnaeus) Cabrera
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    Gamochaeta purpurea (Linnaeus) Cabrera
    Gamochaeta purpurea
    (Linnaeus) Cabrera
    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.
    accepted
    cotonnière pourprée (French)
    purple cudweed (English)
    spoon-leaved purple everlasting (English)
    spoon-leaved cudweed (English)
    Spoon-leaf cudweed (English)
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    Douglas, G.W., G.B. Straley, D.V. Meidinger & J. Pojar. 1998. Illustrated Flora of British Columbia. B.C. Ministry of Environment, Lands & Parks and B.C. Ministry of Forests. Victoria. Crown Publications. 8 vols.
    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/
    Mexico
    West Indies
    Central America (Nicaragua)
    South America
    Pacific Islands (Hawaii)
    Flowering Apr–May(–Jun).
    disturbed
    sandy habitats
    roadsides
    fields
    woodland clearings
    Stems erect to decumbent-ascending, densely but loosely pannose or pannose-tomentose.
    Leaves basal and cauline, basal and proximal cauline usually withering before flowering;
    blades oblanceolate to spatulate, 1–6 cm × 5–14 mm (distal similar, at least among proximal heads, margins sometimes sinuate), faces usually bicolor, abaxial closely white-pannose, adaxial usually sparsely arachnose (basal-cells of hairs persistent, expanded, glassy), sometimes glabrescent.
    Heads initially in continuous spiciform arrays 1–4 (–5) cm × (5–) 10–15 mm, later interrupted (glomerules widely separated, bracteate, the proximal often on relatively long peduncles).
    Involucres turbinate-cylindric, 4–4.5 mm, bases sparsely arachnose.
    Phyllaries in 4–5 series, outer ovate-triangular, lengths 1/3–2/3 inner, apices acute-acuminate, inner triangular-lanceolate (usually striate), laminae purplish (in bud) to whitish or silvery (in fruit), apices acute (not apiculate).
    Florets: bisexual 3–4;
    all corollas usually purplish distally.
    Cypselae (tan) 0.6–0.7 mm. 2n = 14, 28.