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Prairie Broomweed

Amphiachyris dracunculoides (DC.) Nutt.

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Amphiachyris dracunculoides is common in the south-central states, often in relatively large populations.
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
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Flora of North America Vol. 20: 86, 88 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Description

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Plants 30–100(–200) cm. Primary stems 0.3–1(–2) mm diam. Leaf blades narrowly to broadly lanceolate, 5–60 × 0.5–6 mm. Heads in crowded corymbiform arrays. Phyllaries 2–3 × 1–2 mm. Receptacles deeply pitted, glabrous. Cypselae 1.2–2.2 mm, 7–9-ribbed, short-setulose. 2n = 10 (rarely 8).
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
bibliographic citation
Flora of North America Vol. 20: 86, 88 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Synonym

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Brachyris dracunculoides de Candolle, Mém. Soc. Phys. Genève 7: 265. 1836; Gutierrezia dracunculoides (de Candolle) S. F. Blake; Xanthocephalum amoenum Shinners var. intermedium Shinners
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cc-by-nc-sa-3.0
copyright
Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
bibliographic citation
Flora of North America Vol. 20: 86, 88 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Flora of North America @ eFloras.org
editor
Flora of North America Editorial Committee
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eFloras.org
original
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eFloras