Helianthus petiolaris Nuttall (Q2768)

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Helianthus petiolaris is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Helianthus
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Helianthus petiolaris Nuttall
Helianthus petiolaris is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Helianthus

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    taxon/id/Helianthus petiolaris Nuttall
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    Helianthus petiolaris Nuttall
    Helianthus petiolaris
    Nuttall
    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
    Helianthus petiolaris
    hélianthe de la Prairie (French)
    prairie sunflower (English)
    plains sunflower (English)
    petioled sunflower (English)
    Kansas sunflower (English)
    hélianthe des prairies (French)
    Prairie sunflower (English)
    Stems erect, usually densely canescent, hispid, or strigillose, rarely ± hirsute or glabrate.
    Leaves mostly cauline;
    petioles 2–4 cm;
    blades (often bluish green) lanceolate to deltate-ovate or ovate, 4–15 × 1–8 cm, bases subcordate or truncate to cuneate, margins entire or ± serrate, abaxial faces strigose, sparsely to densely, or not at all, glanddotted.
    Peduncles 4–15 (–40) cm.
    Involucres ± hemispheric, 10–24 mm diam.
    Phyllaries 14–25, lance-linear to lanceolate to lanceovate, 10–14 × 1–4 (–5) mm, (margins sometimes ciliate) apices short-attenuate, abaxial faces usually hispidulous, rarely sparsely hirsute to glabrate.
    Paleae 4.5–7.5 mm, 3-toothed, middle teeth ± ciliate or bearded, hairs whitish, 0.5–0.7 mm.
    Ray-florets 10–30;
    laminae 15–20 mm.
    Disc-florets 50–100+;
    corollas 4.5–6 mm, lobes usually reddish, rarely yellow;
    anthers reddish to purplish, appendages purplish (style-branches reddish).
    Cypselae 3–4.5 mm, ± villous;
    pappi of 2 aristate scales 1.5–3 mm plus 0–2 erose scales 0.3–0.5 mm. 2n = 34.