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|accepted_name=Marshallia caespitosa
|accepted_authority=Nuttall ex de Candolle in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle, Prodr.
|place=5: 680. 1836
|year=1836
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Marshallia caespitosa var. signata
|authority=Beadle & F. E. Boynton
}}
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae;Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Marshalliinae;Marshallia;Marshallia caespitosa
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subtribe</small>[[Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Marshalliinae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Marshallia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Marshallia caespitosa]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 21
|mention_page=page 457
|treatment_page=page 458
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>(10–)20–50(–80) cm (aerial stems unbranched, usually clustered). <b>Leaves</b> mostly basal; basal petiolate; blades 3-nerved, linear, linear-elliptic, or linear-oblanceolate, 5–15 cm × 2.5–9.5(–15) mm. <b>Heads</b> borne singly, 20–32 mm diam. <b>Peduncles</b> 10–28 cm. <b>Phyllaries</b> 9–12 × 1–3 mm, (margins sometimes narrowly-winged proximally) apices obtuse to acute, often mucronate. <b>Paleae</b> linear, apices acute or mucronate. <b>Corollas</b> usually white, sometimes pale lavender, lobes 4–6 × 0.5–1 mm. <b>Pappi</b>: scale margins irregularly fimbriate. <b>2n</b> = 18, 36.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering May–Jun.
|habitat=Limestone outcrops, sandy soils
|elevation=100–1000 m
|distribution=Ark.;Kans.;La.;Mo.;Okla.;Tex.
|discussion=<p>Scapiform to subscapiform plants of <i>Marshallia caespitosa</i> with relatively few cauline leaves and heads borne singly occur mostly in Oklahoma and southeast Texas and Louisiana. Plants with more or less leafy stems and one to relatively many heads are sometimes recognized as var. signata; they grow mostly in central Texas.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Marshallia caespitosa
|author=
|authority=Nuttall ex de Candolle in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Marshallia caespitosa var. signata
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering May–Jun.
|habitat=Limestone outcrops, sandy soils
|elevation=100–1000 m
|distribution=Ark.;Kans.;La.;Mo.;Okla.;Tex.
|reference=None
|publication title=in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle, Prodr.
|publication year=1836
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V19-20-21/V21_1152.xml
|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae
|subtribe=Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Marshalliinae
|genus=Marshallia
|species=Marshallia caespitosa
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