Cacalia muehlenbergii (Sch.Bip.) Fernald
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Authority
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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Family
Asteraceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Stout, fibrous-rooted, glabrous perennial 1–3 m; stem conspicuously 6–8-angled and sulcate; lvs green on both sides, irregularly dentate and sometimes shallowly lobed, commonly ± ciliolate in the sinuses, palmately veined, the lower very large and long-petioled, to 8 dm wide, often reniform, the upper reduced and more flabellate or ovate; heads numerous in a short and broad, flat-topped infl, 5-fld, narrowly cylindric, the disk 3–7 mm wide as pressed; invol 7–12 mm, its principal bracts 5, sometimes with a few minute basal bracteoles; receptacle with a short conic projection in the center; 2n=50. Open woods; N.J. and Pa. to Minn. and Mo., s. to Ga. and Miss. June–Sept. (C. reniformis; Mesadenia r.; M. muehlenbergii)
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Common Names
great Indian-plantain