Prenanthes aspera Michaux (Q6252)

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Prenanthes aspera is a synonym of Nabalus asper (Michaux) Torrey & A. Gray
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Prenanthes aspera Michaux
Prenanthes aspera is a synonym of Nabalus asper (Michaux) Torrey & A. Gray

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    taxon/id/Prenanthes aspera Michaux
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    Rough rattlesnakeroot (English)
    Flowering Aug–Oct.
    tall-grass prairies
    dry prairies
    dry rocky woods
    Plants 35–170 cm;
    taproots fusiform, thickened, tuberous, with smaller lateral roots.
    Stems erect, green and mottled purple, glabrous proximally, midstems hispid or setose, scabrous to coarsely setose distally.
    Leaves: proximalmost usually withered by flowering;
    petiolate (midcauline sessile, clasping);
    blades spatulate, 4–11 × 2–5 cm, firm, coriaceous, brittle, bases attenuate, margins entire or weakly dentate, apices acute to obtuse, faces glabrate to roughly hispid abaxially;
    Heads in erect, racemiform or narrowly paniculiform arrays.
    Involucres cylindric to campanulate, 12–17 mm.
    Calyculi of 6–12, green, triangular to lanceolate bractlets 2–5 mm, coarsely setose.
    Phyllaries 6–10, yellow green to tan, linear-lanceolate, 8–15 mm, coarsely setose.
    corollas pale-yellow to creamy white, 9–17 mm.
    Cypselae tan, subcylindric, subterete, 5–6 mm, irregularly 10–12-ribbed;
    pappi pale-yellow or brown, 7–8 mm. 2n = 16.