View source for Baccharis wrightii

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|accepted_name=Baccharis wrightii
|accepted_authority=A. Gray
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Smithsonian Contr. Knowl.
|place=3(5): 101. 1852
|year=1852
}}
|common_names=Wright’s baccharis or false willow
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Astereae;Baccharis;Baccharis wrightii
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Astereae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Baccharis]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Baccharis wrightii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=page 25
|treatment_page=page 34
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Subshrubs </b>or shrubs, 10–80 cm (much branched from woody caudices, aerial stems sometimes dying back). <b>Stems</b> erect and slender or short and branched, prominently striate-angled, glabrous, eglandular. <b>Leaves</b> (reduced) proximal often withered and absent at flowering; sessile; blades oblanceolate to narrowly oblong, 5–10(–25) × 1–3(–7) mm (thin), bases narrowed, margins entire or finely serrate (teeth aristate), faces eglandular, not resinous (distal reduced to linear or oblong scales). <b>Heads</b> usually borne singly (terminal on slender branches). <b>Involucres</b> broadly campanulate to hemispheric; staminate 5–9 mm, pistillate 9–14 mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> narrowly lanceolate, 2–6 mm (not keeled), medians green or brown, margins scarious, apices acute or acuminate (erose, abaxial faces glabrous, eglandular). <b>Staminate</b> florets 20–30; corollas 4.5–6 mm. <b>Pistillate</b> florets 20–30; corollas 3–5 mm. <b>Cypselae</b> 3–5 mm, strongly 5–10-nerved, papillose-roughened, glandular; pappi 15–20 mm (often brownish). <b>2n</b> = 18.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Apr–Jul.
|habitat=Dry sandy plains
|elevation=500–2000 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Colo.;Kans.;N.Mex.;Okla.;Tex.;Utah;Mexico (Chihuahua;Durango;Sonora).
|discussion=<p><i>Baccharis wrightii</i> is recognized by its bushy, broomlike habit, stems woody only at bases, relatively small, non gland-dotted leaves, early flowering period, heads borne singly, conspicuous, brownish pistillate pappi, and relatively large, strongly nerved cypselae.</p>
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name=Baccharis wrightii
|author=
|authority=A. Gray
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering Apr–Jul.
|habitat=Dry sandy plains
|elevation=500–2000 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Colo.;Kans.;N.Mex.;Okla.;Tex.;Utah;Mexico (Chihuahua;Durango;Sonora).
|reference=None
|publication title=Smithsonian Contr. Knowl.
|publication year=1852
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Astereae
|genus=Baccharis
|species=Baccharis wrightii
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