Krigia Schreber (Q3121)

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Krigia is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Cichorieae
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Krigia Schreber
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.
    accepted
    Dwarf dandelion (English)
    North America
    ne Mexico
    taprooted, fibrous-rooted, or (in K. dandelion) with rhizomes bearing globose tubers.
    Stems 1–50+, usually erect, rarely decumbent, scapiform or branched distally, glabrous or sparingly villous (proximally), glandular-villous (especially distally).
    Leaves mostly basal, sometimes cauline;
    petiolate (petioles often winged);
    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);
    distal cauline usually slightly reduced to bractlike.
    Heads borne singly.
    Peduncles not distally inflated, ebracteate (from rosettes and from axils of cauline leaves or bracts).
    Involucres turbinate to campanulate, 2–12 mm diam.
    Phyllaries (4–) 5–18 in 1–2 series, (sometimes reflexed in fruit) linear-lanceolate to ovate, equal, herbaceous, apices acute (faces glabrous).
    Receptacles flat or low-convex, pitted, glabrous, epaleate.
    corollas yellow to orange (equaling or surpassing phyllaries).
    Cypselae brown or reddish-brown, columnar, obconic, barrel-shaped, or fusiform, not beaked, nerves or ribs 10–20, glabrous;
    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).
    x = (4) 5 (6, 9).