Helenium flexuosum Rafinesque (Q2706)

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Helenium flexuosum is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Helenium
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Helenium flexuosum Rafinesque
Helenium flexuosum is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Helenium

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    taxon/id/Helenium flexuosum Rafinesque
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    Helenium flexuosum Rafinesque
    Helenium flexuosum
    Rafinesque
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2006. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 21: Magnoliophyta: Asteridae, part 8: Asteraceae, part 3. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    hélénie nudiflore (French)
    purple-headed sneezeweed (English)
    naked-flowered sneezeweed (English)
    Purplehead sneezeweed (English)
    hélénie nudiflore (English)
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    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/
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    Marie-Victorin, Fr. 1995. Flore laurentienne. 3e éd. Mise à jour et annotée par L. Brouillet, S.G. Hay, I. Goulet, M. Blondeau, J. Cayouette et J. Labrecque. Gaétan Morin éditeur. 1093 pp.
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    Zinck, M. 1998. Roland's Flora of Nova Scotia. Nimber Publishing & Nova Scotia Museum. Halifax, N. S. 2 vols. 1297 pp.
    Flowering (Apr–)May–Jul(–Oct).
    Stems usually 1, usually branched distally, strongly winged, glabrous or sparsely hairy proximally, sparsely to moderately hairy distally.
    Leaves glabrous or sparsely to moderately hairy;
    basal blades oblanceolate to obovate or spatulate, entire or serrate;
    distal blades lanceolate to lance-linear, entire.
    Heads (1–) 5–50 (–80+) per plant, in paniculiform arrays.
    Peduncles 3–10 cm, sparsely to moderately hairy.
    Involucres globoid to usually ovoid, 8–17 × 9–17 mm.
    Phyllaries (connate proximally) moderately to densely hairy.
    Ray-florets usually 8–13, neuter, sometimes 0;
    corollas yellow to reddish-brown to red to purple, 10–20 × 5–10 mm.
    Disc-florets 250–500 (–700+);
    corollas yellow proximally and purple distally or purple throughout, 2.3–3.7 mm, lobes 4 (–5).
    Cypselae 1–1.2 mm, moderately hairy;
    pappi of 5–6 entire, aristate scales 0.6–1 (–1.7) mm.