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Brickellia
Family: Asteraceae
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Randall W. Scott in Flora of North America (vol. 21)
Annuals, perennials, subshrubs, or shrubs, (12-)30-120(-200) cm. Stems mostly erect, often much branched (sometimes virgate, often striate). Leaves cauline; opposite or alternate; petiolate or sessile; blades usually 3-nerved from bases, deltate, lance-elliptic, lance-linear, lanceolate, lance-ovate, lance-rhombic, linear, oblong, obovate, ovate, rhombic-ovate, spatulate, or suborbiculate, margins mostly crenate, dentate, entire, laciniate-dentate, lobed, serrate, or toothed, faces glabrous (sometimes shiny) or glandular-puberulent, strigose, or tomentose, sometimes gland-dotted. Heads usually in corymbiform, sometimes cymiform, paniculiform, or racemiform, arrays, rarely borne singly. Involucres cylindric to obconic or campanulate, 5-12 mm diam. Phyllaries persistent, (10-)14-45(-60) in 3-7(-9) series, usually (4-)5-6(-16)-striate or -nerved, linear or lanceolate to oblanceolate or oblong, usually unequal (usually chartaceous, sometimes herbaceous). Receptacles flat to convex, epaleate. Florets (3-)8-45(-90); corollas usually white or whitish to cream, sometimes greenish, purplish or yellowish, throats mostly cylindric to narrowly funnelform (lengths 3-5 times diams.); styles: bases enlarged, hairy, branches narrowly clavate (± dilated distally). Cypselae narrowly prismatic, 10-ribbed, glabrous or hairy to glabrate, often gland-dotted; pappi persistent, of 10-80 usually smooth or barbellulate to barbellate, sometimes plumose or subplumose bristles in 1 series. x = 9.
Species within checklist: Flora of Federal Protected Areas, Desert West
Brickellia amplexicaulis
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Brickellia atractyloides
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Brickellia baccharidea
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Brickellia betonicifolia
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Brickellia brachyphylla
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Brickellia californica
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Brickellia chenopodina
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Brickellia chlorolepis
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Brickellia coulteri
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Brickellia cylindracea
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Brickellia dentata
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Brickellia desertorum
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Brickellia eupatorioides
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Brickellia fendleri
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Brickellia floribunda
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Brickellia frutescens
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Brickellia grandiflora
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Brickellia laciniata
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Brickellia lemmonii
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Brickellia longifolia
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Brickellia microphylla
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Brickellia oblongifolia
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Brickellia parvula
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Brickellia pringlei
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Brickellia rusbyi
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Brickellia simplex
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Brickellia venosa
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Brickellia veronicifolia
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Development supported by National Science Foundation Grants (DBI 9983132, BRC 0237418, DBI 0743827, DBI 0847966)
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