Prenanthes alba Linnaeus (Q6250)

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Prenanthes alba is a synonym of Nabalus albus (Linnaeus) Hooker
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Prenanthes alba Linnaeus
Prenanthes alba is a synonym of Nabalus albus (Linnaeus) Hooker

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    taxon/id/Prenanthes alba Linnaeus
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    White rattlesnakeroot (English)
    prenanthe blanche (English)
    Flowering Aug–Oct.
    sandy oak-scrub
    open oak-hickory woods
    forests
    creek banks
    road cuts
    Plants 20–175 cm;
    taproots short and thickened, fibrous.
    Stems erect, often mottled purple or nearly all purple (often with stout bases, 8–12 mm diam.), proximally glabrous, tomentulose distally.
    Leaves: proximal present at flowering;
    petioles narrowly winged (to 18 cm);
    blades usually ovate to triangular or cordate, 4–30 × 3–18 cm, thin to coriaceous, bases often hastate, margins usually coarsely dentate or serrate, sometimes deeply 3-lobed or parted, lobes acute, faces glabrous adaxially, pale to whitish and sometimes hirsute abaxially;
    Heads (3–8, in clusters) in paniculiform arrays (densest near apices).
    Involucres cylindric to campanulate, 13–15 × 3–5 mm.
    Calyculi of 5–7, triangular to lanceolate bractlets 1–3 mm, glabrous.
    Phyllaries (6–) 8 (–9), ± purplish or maroon, lanceolate, 10–13 mm, margins scarious, minutely ciliate, apices acute, faces glabrous.
    Florets 7–9 (–13);
    corollas whitish to pale-pink, lavender or red, 9–15 mm.
    Cypselae brown or tan, elliptical to linear, 3.5–6 mm;
    pappi usually reddish-brown, sometimes rusty, rarely yellowish, 6–7 mm. 2n = 32.