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|accepted_name=Emilia sonchifolia
|accepted_authority=(Linnaeus) de Candolle in R. Wight
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in R. Wight, Contr. Bot. India,
|place=24. 1834
|year=1834
}}
|common_names=Lilac tasselflowers
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
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|code=F
|label=Illustrated
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|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Cacalia sonchifolia
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|publication_title=Sp. Pl.
|publication_place=2: 835. 1753
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Senecioneae;Emilia;Emilia sonchifolia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Senecioneae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Emilia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Emilia sonchifolia]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=page 605
|treatment_page=page 606
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>20–80 cm, glabrous or ± villous. <b>Stems</b> 1, erect or somewhat lax, simple or branched. <b>Leaves</b> mostly in proximal 1/2; usually petiolate; blades ovate to obovate or oblanceolate, mostly 5–12 × 1.5–4.5 cm (distal smaller, bractlike), margins often deeply lobed to lyrate-pinnatifid. <b>Involucres</b> urceolate to campanulate, 9–12 mm, relatively slender, lengths mostly 3–4 times diams. <b>Phyllaries</b> usually 8. <b>Florets</b> 15–30[–40], surpassing involucres by 0–1(–2) mm; corollas usually lavender, pinkish, or purplish, rarely reddish, lobes 0.5–0.7[–1.5] mm; style appendages 0–0.1 mm. <b>2n</b> = 10.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering probably year round, mostly Oct–Mar.
|habitat=Disturbed sites, old fields, roadsides
|elevation=0–100 m
|distribution=Fla.;Ga.;S.C.;Asia;also introduced in New World tropics.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p><i>Emilia sonchifolia</i> is a pantropical weed of Asiatic origin and should be expected as an occasional escape in the flora. D. H. Nicolson (1980) treated the eastern Asian representatives of <i>E. sonchifolia</i>, which have corolla lobes 1.1–1.5 mm, as <i>E. sonchifolia</i> var. javanica (Burman f.) Mattfeld. In the flora, plants of <i>E. sonchifolia</i> have corolla lobes 0.5–0.8 mm and are treated as <i></i>var.<i> sonchifolia</i>. See Nicolson (p. 398) for discussion of nomenclatural attribution.</p>
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name=Emilia sonchifolia
|authority=(Linnaeus) de Candolle in R. Wight
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Cacalia sonchifolia
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering probably year round, mostly Oct–Mar.
|habitat=Disturbed sites, old fields, roadsides
|elevation=0–100 m
|distribution=Fla.;Ga.;S.C.;Asia;also introduced in New World tropics.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=in R. Wight, Contr. Bot. India,
|publication year=1834
|special status=Introduced;Illustrated
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Senecioneae
|genus=Emilia
|species=Emilia sonchifolia
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