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|accepted_name=Pterocaulon virgatum
|accepted_authority=(Linnaeus) 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: 454. 1836
|year=1836
}}
|common_names=Wand blackroot
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Gnaphalium virgatum
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|publication_title=Syst. Nat. ed.
|publication_place=10, 2: 1211. 1759
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Plucheeae;Pterocaulon;Pterocaulon virgatum
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Plucheeae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Pterocaulon]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Pterocaulon virgatum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 19
|mention_page=page 476
|treatment_page=page 477
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>4–15 dm. <b>Leaf</b> blades linear to narrowly elliptic or linear-lanceolate, 5–10(–15) cm × (2–)5–10(–14) mm, lengths mostly 6–8 times widths, margins entire or minutely denticulate (revolute). <b>Heads</b> in open, interrupted, ± cylindric arrays (5–)8–20 cm (main axes visible between glomerules of heads). <b>Involucres</b> campanulate to cylindric, 4–5 mm. <b>Pistillate</b> florets 25–50. <b>Functionally</b> staminate florets 2–4(–5). <b>Cypselae</b> 1–1.4 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Aug–Oct.
|habitat=Marshy areas, ditches, moist places in woods, in sand, sandy loam, and sandy clay
|elevation=0–20 m
|distribution=La.;Tex.;Mexico (Tamaulipas);West Indies;Central America;South America.
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name=Pterocaulon virgatum
|authority=(Linnaeus) de Candolle in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Gnaphalium virgatum
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering Aug–Oct.
|habitat=Marshy areas, ditches, moist places in woods, in sand, sandy loam, and sandy clay
|elevation=0–20 m
|distribution=La.;Tex.;Mexico (Tamaulipas);West Indies;Central America;South America.
|reference=None
|publication title=in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle, Prodr.
|publication year=1836
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Plucheeae
|genus=Pterocaulon
|species=Pterocaulon virgatum
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