Lygodesmia juncea (Pursh) D. Don ex Hooker (Q3142)

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Lygodesmia juncea is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Lygodesmia
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Lygodesmia juncea (Pursh) D. Don ex Hooker
Lygodesmia juncea is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Lygodesmia

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    taxon/id/Lygodesmia juncea (Pursh) D. Don ex Hooker
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    Lygodesmia juncea (Pursh) D. Don ex Hooker
    Lygodesmia juncea
    (Pursh) D. Don ex Hooker
    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
    herbe-squelette commune (French)
    herbe squelette (French)
    rush skeletonplant (English)
    rush skeletonweed (English)
    common skeletonweed (English)
    rush-like skeletonplant (English)
    Rush skeletonplant (English)
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    Moss, E.H. 1983. Flora of Alberta. 2nd edition, revised by J.G. Packer. University of Toronto Press, Toronto. 687 pp.
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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
    Harms, V.L. 2006. Annotated catalogue of Saskatchewan vascular plants. http://www.biodiversity.sk.ca/Docs/AnnotatedCatalogueSKVascPlants2006.pdf
    Flowering Jun–Sep.
    rolling short-grass prairies
    blufftop prairies
    loess hills
    silty soils
    disturbed sites
    railroads
    sandy to silty soils
    roadsides
    barren areas
    600–2300 m
    taproots deep, vertical, rhizomes branched, woody.
    Stems erect to ascending or decumbent, green, glaucous, much branched from bases and distally, strongly striate, glabrous (often bearing round galls).
    proximal blades linear, 5–30 (–60) × 1–2 (–4) mm, margins entire, apices acute, faces glabrous;
    cauline reduced to subulate scales.
    Heads (1–50+) borne singly or in corymbiform arrays.
    Involucres cylindric, 10–16 × 4–6 mm, apices spreading.
    Calyculi of 8, ovate to linear bractlets 2–4 mm, margins erose-ciliate (faces glabrous).
    Phyllaries 5 (–7), linear, 10–15 mm, margins scarious, apices acute or obtuse, not appendaged, faces glabrous.
    Florets usually 5;
    corollas usually light pink to lavender, rarely white, 18–20 mm, ligules 3–4 mm wide.
    Cypselae 6–10 mm, weakly striate, glabrous;
    pappi 6–9 mm. 2n = 18.