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|accepted_name=Leucophyllum minus
|accepted_authority=A. Gray in W. H. Emory
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Rep. U.S. Mex. Bound.
|place=2(1): 115. 1859
|year=1859
}}
|common_names=Big Bend barometer-bush or silver-leaf
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Scrophulariaceae;Leucophyllum;Leucophyllum minus
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Scrophulariaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Leucophyllum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Leucophyllum minus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 17
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 333
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>erect, intricately branched, compact, 2–8(–15) dm, often appearing thorny. <b>Young</b> stems densely and evenly silvery stellate, hairs closely and tightly appressed, overlapping, appearing stellate, actually compressed-dendritic with radii extending from multiple levels, typically with one series of radii at tip. <b>Leaves</b> alternate, crowded in axillary fascicles or on compressed lateral shoots; petiole (0.5–)1–3(–4) mm; blade oblanceolate or spatulate to obovate-orbiculate, (2–)3–10(–16) mm, base cuneate-attenuate, surfaces equally silvery gray, hairs stellate, closely and tightly appressed, overlapping. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx lobes linear to oblong-lanceolate, (2–)3–4.5 mm; corolla lavender to purple or blue, rarely white, campanulate, (12–)18–25 mm, abruptly ampliate distal to narrow tube. <b>2n</b> = 34.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering (May–)Jun–Aug(–Nov).
|habitat=Limestone ridges, slopes, and ledges, gravel, clayey, sandy hills, gravelly washes.
|elevation=900–1700 m.
|distribution=N.Mex.;Tex.;Mexico (Chihuahua;Coahuila).
|discussion=<p>In Texas, <i>Leucophyllum minus</i> is known from the Big Bend region westward through the Trans-Pecos.</p>
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name=Leucophyllum minus
|author=
|authority=A. Gray in W. H. Emory
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Scrophulariaceae
|phenology=Flowering (May–)Jun–Aug(–Nov).
|habitat=Limestone ridges, slopes, and ledges, gravel, clayey, sandy hills, gravelly washes.
|elevation=900–1700 m.
|distribution=N.Mex.;Tex.;Mexico (Chihuahua;Coahuila).
|reference=None
|publication title=Rep. U.S. Mex. Bound.
|publication year=1859
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/8f726806613d60c220dc4493de13607dd3150896/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V17/V17_22.xml
|genus=Leucophyllum
|species=Leucophyllum minus
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