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|accepted_name=Zinnia anomala
|accepted_authority=A. Gray
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Smithsonian Contr. Knowl.
|place=3(5): 106. plate 10. 1852
|year=1852
}}
|common_names=Shortray zinnia
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae;Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Ecliptinae;Zinnia;Zinnia anomala
|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 Ecliptinae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Zinnia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Zinnia anomala]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 21
|mention_page=page 65, 71, 72
|treatment_page=page 73
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Subshrubs,</b> to 12 cm (rounded). <b>Stems</b> yellowish, much branched, strigose. <b>Leaf</b> blades 1- or 3-nerved, linear, 15–30 × 1–4 mm, strigose. <b>Peduncles</b> to 25 mm. <b>Involucres</b> broadly cylindric, 8–10 × 8–10 mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> round to oblong, becoming scarious, appressed-hairy distally, apices rounded, ciliate. <b>Paleae</b> yellowish (often red-tipped), apices obtuse, erose. <b>Ray</b> florets 0 or 5–8; corollas yellow, laminae suborbiculate to ovate, 0–6(–9) mm. <b>Disc</b> florets ca. 20; corollas reddish, 5.5–6.2 mm, lobes 1 mm. <b>Cypselae</b> 7–8 (ray) or 3–6 mm (disc), 3-angled (ray) or compressed (disc), ribbed, distally ciliate or scabrellous; pappi usually of 2 or 3 equal or unequal awns. <b>2n</b> = ca. 48, ca. 84.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–fall.
|habitat=Open, rocky roadsides, disturbed sites
|elevation=200–1500 m
|distribution=Tex.;Mexico (Coahuila;Nuevo León;Zacatecas).
|discussion=<p>A. M. Torres (1963) speculated that <i>Zinnia anomala</i>, which often lacks rays or has inconspicuous rays, might be an octoploid derivative of the rather similar <i>Z. grandiflora</i>, which has showy yellow rays.</p>
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name=Zinnia anomala
|author=
|authority=A. Gray
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–fall.
|habitat=Open, rocky roadsides, disturbed sites
|elevation=200–1500 m
|distribution=Tex.;Mexico (Coahuila;Nuevo León;Zacatecas).
|reference=None
|publication title=Smithsonian Contr. Knowl.
|publication year=1852
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae
|subtribe=Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Ecliptinae
|genus=Zinnia
|species=Zinnia anomala
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