Synedrella nodiflora (L.) Gaertn.

  • Authority

    Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

  • Family

    Asteraceae

  • Scientific Name

    Synedrella nodiflora (L.) Gaertn.

  • Description

    Species Description - Stem appressed-pubescent above, glabrate below, rather widely branched, 3-8 dm. high. Leaves thin, ovate to elliptic, 3-10 cm. long, triplinerved, lowserrate, acute at the apex, narrowed at the base into short margined petioles, loosely appressed-pubescent above, rather densely appressed-pubescent beneath; heads few or several together in nearly sessile, axillary or terminal clusters; involucre about 8 mm. high, its 1 or 2 outer bracts pubescent, oblong-lanceolate, the inner narrower, glabrous; achenes 4-5 mm. long, those of the rayflowers with ascending marginal bristles and 2 short awns, those of the diskflowers with 2 subulate awns.

  • Distribution

    Waste places, Abaco, New Providence and Crooked Island : Florida ; West Indies and continental tropical America. Nodeweed.

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