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|accepted_name=Balduina
|accepted_authority=Nuttall
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. N. Amer. Pl.
|place=2: 175. 1818
|year=1818
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae;Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Gaillardiinae;Balduina
|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 Gaillardiinae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Balduina]]</div></div>
|etymology=For William Baldwin, 1779–1819, American botanist
|volume=Volume 21
|mention_page=page 5, 415
|treatment_page=page 419
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Annuals </b>or perennials, 30–100 cm (gland-dotted). <b>Stems</b> erect, simple or branched (terete or angled), glabrous or hairy. <b>Leaves</b> cauline; alternate; sessile; blades linear, linear-spatulate, or spatulate, margins entire, faces glabrous or ± hairy. <b>Heads</b> borne singly or in loose, corymbiform to paniculiform arrays. <b>Involucres</b> hemispheric to broadly campanulate, 6–25 mm diam. <b>Phyllaries</b> persistent, 30–50 in 3–5 series (distinct, lanceolate to ovate, unequal). <b>Receptacles</b> slightly convex, deeply pitted (pits collectively forming honeycombed structure, each pit ± enveloping a disc floret, pit borders irregularly toothed to entire), epaleate (pits sometimes interpreted as formed from connate paleae). <b>Ray</b> florets 8–22, neuter; corollas yellow (tubes glabrous or hairy, laminae spatulate, abaxially hairy, adaxially glabrous). <b>Disc</b> florets 30–190, bisexual, fertile; corollas yellow, orange-red, or purple (at least tips), tubes shorter/longer than funnelform throats, lobes 5, deltate (abaxially hairy; stamens pale yellow; style-branch appendages subulate, papillate). <b>Cypselae</b> obconic, villous; pappi persistent, of 7–12 scales. <b>x</b> = 18.</span><!--

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|distribution=se United States.
|discussion=<p>Species 3 (3 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references=
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Annuals (taprooted); cauline leaves linear, 0.5–1.9(–2.5) mm wide; outer phyllaries lanceolate, 0.6–1.7 mm wide, apices acuminate; pappus scales obovate to orbiculate,0.3–0.6 mm
|[[Balduina angustifolia|Balduina angustifolia]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Perennials (fibrous rooted); cauline leaves linear-spatulate, 2–7 mm wide; outer phyllaries ovate, 1.7–3.1 mm wide, apices acute; pappus scales lanceolate, 1.3–2.2 mm
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Basal leaves spatulate, 2.8–10.4 cm; disc corollas yellow to orange-red
|[[Balduina uniflora|Balduina uniflora]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Basal leaves linear-spatulate, 7–32 cm; disc corollas dark purple (at least tips)
|[[Balduina atropurpurea|Balduina atropurpurea]]
|}
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Balduina
|author=Brian R. Keener
|authority=Nuttall
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subtribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|illustrator=Sheila Flinchpaugh
|illustration copyright=Flora of North America Association
|distribution=se United States.
|reference=None
|publication title=Gen. N. Amer. Pl.
|publication year=1818
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/eaa6e58056e40c9ef614d8f47aea294977a1a5e9/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V19-20-21/V21_1048.xml
|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae
|subtribe=Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Gaillardiinae
|genus=Balduina
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