Brickellia eupatorioides var. eupatorioides Vent. (redirected from: Kuhnia rosmarinifolia)
Family: Asteraceae
[Brickellia rosemarinifolia (Vent.) W.A. Weber, orth.,  more...]
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Steve Hurst  

Plants 30-150 cm. Leaves opposite; petioles 1-10 mm; blades 1- or 3-nerved from bases, broadly rhombic-lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, 25-100 × 5-40 mm, margins entire or ± dentate. Heads in corymbiform arrays. Peduncles 5-20 mm. Involucres 7-11 mm. Phyllaries green to stramineous, sometimes purple-tinged (lengths of outer to 1/2 inner, apices acute to acuminate, not contorted). Florets 6-15; corollas pale yellow to maroon, 4.5-6 mm. Cypselae 4-5.5 mm. 2n = 18.

Flowering May-Oct. Open areas, wide range of soils; 200-2300 m; Ala., Ark., Fla., Ga., Ind., Ky., La., Md., Miss., N.J., N.C., Ohio, Pa., S.C., Tenn., Tex., Va., W.Va.

From Flora of Indiana (1940) by Charles C. Deam

Locally infrequent to common in very sandy soil on open, wooded dunes and along roadsides in the extreme northern part of the state and in a few counties to the south of this area. In the southern part, and in a few of the central counties, it is found on high, wooded river bluffs, and on the crests and slopes of open, wooded ridges.

Plants 3-13 dm, densely puberulent to subglabrous; stems numerous; lvs narrowly lanceolate to broadly rhombic-lanceolate, the main ones 2.5-10 cm נ0.5-4 cm, gland-dotted beneath, entire or toothed, sessile or the lower short-petiolate; heads mostly in small corymbiform clusters terminating the branches; invol 7-14 mm, the inner bracts mostly linear or oblong, the outer subulate-deltoid to lanceolate, with slender attenuate tip; fls creamy-white; pappus-bristles 20; 2n=18. Dry open places, especially in sandy soil; N.J. to O., N.D., and Mont., s. to Fla. and Ariz. Aug.-Oct. (Brickellia e.) Three vars. in our range.

Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

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Brickellia eupatorioides var. eupatorioides image
Steve Hurst  
Brickellia eupatorioides var. eupatorioides image
John Hilty  
Brickellia eupatorioides var. eupatorioides image
John Hilty  
Brickellia eupatorioides var. eupatorioides image
John Hilty  
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Peter Gorman  
Brickellia eupatorioides var. eupatorioides image
Steve Hurst  
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Peter Gorman