Cotula coronopifolia L.
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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 - Essentially glabrous, somewhat succulent perennial 5–30 cm tall, often trailing; lvs sessile, with subscarious sheathing base, entire or with a few coarse teeth or deep narrow lobes, narrowly oblong or lanceolate to linear, 1–6 cm × 1–10 mm, or broader when lobed; heads solitary at the ends of the branches; disk 5–11 mm wide; pistillate fls in a single series, without cor; achenes of the outer fls broadly winged, shorter than the stipe, the others merely 2-nerved, short-stipitate, the stipes persistent on the receptacle; 2n=20. Tidal flats, wet meadows, and other moist places; native of S. Afr., occasionally found from Que. to Mass. in our range. July–Aug.