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Vernonia pulchella
Small
Family:
Asteraceae
Georgia Ironweed
FNA
Resources
John L. Strother in Flora of North America (vol. 19, 20 and 21)
Plants
4-7+ dm.
Stems
sparsely appressed-puberulent.
Leaves
mostly cauline; blades (mid stem) mostly oblanceolate to lance-linear, rarely ovate, 3-7 cm × (5-)10-20+ mm, l/w = (2.5-)3.5-6+ (bases rounded-truncate), abaxially scabrellous (hairs awl-shaped), resin-gland-dotted, adaxially scabrellous.
Heads
in ± corymbiform to paniculiform arrays.
Peduncles
5-35 mm.
Involucres
± campanulate, 6-11 × 5-9 mm.
Phyllaries
40-50+ in 5-6 series, sparsely puberulent, margins arachno-ciliate, the outer subulate to filiform, 3-7 mm, inner lance-attenuate to filiform, 9-10+ mm, tips subulate to filiform.
Florets
14-25(-30+).
Cypselae
3-3.5 mm;
pappi
stramineous, outer scales 25-30, 0.6-1.1 mm, contrasting with 30+, 6-7+ mm inner bristles.
2
n
= 34.
Flowering Jul-Sep. Low, wet places in pine woods; 20-50 m; Ga., S.C.
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