Hymenopappus scabiosaeus L'Hér.
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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 - Taprooted biennial 3–7 dm, floccose-tomentose and partly glabrate, becoming more villous-puberulent above; lvs pinnatifid or the larger bipinnatifid, the lower 8–25 cm including the short petiole, 3–12 cm wide, or occasionally narrower and entire, the middle and upper generally smaller, often scattered and progressively reduced, at least some always pinnatifid; heads in an open-corymbiform infl, the disk 7–12 mm wide at anthesis; invol 7–10 mm; lobes of the disk- cor ca as long as the throat; pappus-scales hyaline, 1 mm or less; 2n=34. Prairies and dry, open woods; Tex. to s. Neb., e. irregularly to n. Ind., S.C., and Fla. May. (H. carolinensis) Ours is var. scabiosaeus.
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Common Names
old plainsman