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When Dicoria first sprouts, narrow leaves belie different leaf shape later 'Leaf: proximally opposite, 2--10+ pairs in Feb--Apr, otherwise alternate, petioled, blades proximally lance-linear to lanceolate, distally elliptic or lanceolate to +- deltate or ovate, entire or toothed, minutely strigose to silky-hairy, sometimes coarse-erect-hairy, generally gland-dotted, 3-veined.' Jepson eflora
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When Dicoria first sprouts, narrow leaves belie different leaf shape later 'Leaf: proximally opposite, 2--10+ pairs in Feb--Apr, otherwise alternate, petioled, blades proximally lance-linear to lanceolate, distally elliptic or lanceolate to +- deltate or ovate, entire or toothed, minutely strigose to silky-hairy, sometimes coarse-erect-hairy, generally gland-dotted, 3-veined.' Jepson eflora
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When Dicoria first sprouts, narrow leaves belie different leaf shape later 'Leaf: proximally opposite, 2--10+ pairs in Feb--Apr, otherwise alternate, petioled, blades proximally lance-linear to lanceolate, distally elliptic or lanceolate to +- deltate or ovate, entire or toothed, minutely strigose to silky-hairy, sometimes coarse-erect-hairy, generally gland-dotted, 3-veined.' Jepson eflora
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Photo shows a young involucre (right) and an older one (left) with the accrescent phyllary that subtends the fruit
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Photo shows a semi-open involucre with two developing fruits (dark, the 'twingbugs)
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Photo shows an involucre with the large phyllaries that subtend the fruits, and to the left a dried head, the phyllaries fallen, the fruits still attached to the receptacle
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Photo views into a head, showing buds (yellow, center), staminate flowers with whitish corollas and arching, connivent anthers, and a pistillate flower (10 o'clock position), lacking corolla, paired whitish stigmas