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|accepted_name=Zinnia acerosa
|accepted_authority=(de Candolle) A. Gray
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Smithsonian Contr. Knowl.
|place=3(5): 105. 1852
|year=1852
}}
|common_names=Desert or shrubby or southern zinnia
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Diplothrix acerosa
|authority=de Candolle
|rank=species
|publication_title=in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle, Prodr.
|publication_place=5: 611. 1836
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Zinnia pumila
|authority=A. Gray
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae;Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Ecliptinae;Zinnia;Zinnia acerosa
|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 acerosa]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 21
|mention_page=page 73
|treatment_page=page 72
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Subshrubs,</b> to 16 cm (rounded or flat-topped). <b>Stems</b> greenish to gray, much branched, pilose. <b>Leaf</b> blades 1-nerved, linear to acerose, 8–20 × 1–2 mm, scabrous to glabrescent. <b>Peduncles</b> 5–35 mm. <b>Involucres</b> campanulate, 3–5 × 5–7 mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> suborbiculate to oblong, becoming scarious proximally, appressed-hairy distally, apices obtuse, ciliate. <b>Paleae</b> uniformly yellow, apices obtuse, erose. <b>Ray</b> florets 4–7; corollas usually white, sometimes pale yellow, laminae oblong to suborbiculate, 7–10 mm. <b>Disc</b> florets 8–13; corollas yellow or tinged with purple (drying reddish), 3–6 mm, lobes 1 mm. <b>Cypselae</b> 2.4–4 mm, 3-angled (ray) or compressed (disc), ribbed, strigose or distally ciliate; pappi usually of 1–3 unequal awns, sometimes reduced to teeth. <b>2n</b> = 20, 40, or 22.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–fall.
|habitat=Rocky open slopes, flats, calcareous soils
|elevation=700–1900 m
|distribution=Ariz.;N.Mex.;Tex.;Mexico (Chihuahua;Coahuila;Durango;Nuevo León;San Luis Potosí;Sonora;Zacatecas).
|discussion=<p>Attribution of <i>Zinnia acerosa</i> to Utah (S. L. Welsh et al. 1993) was based on Atwood et al. 9704 (BRY), from Moab, Grand County; the specimen was indicated as “possibly cultivated” by the collector, and it is well outside the known range of the species.</p>
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name=Zinnia acerosa
|authority=(de Candolle) A. Gray
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Zinnia pumila
|basionyms=Diplothrix acerosa
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–fall.
|habitat=Rocky open slopes, flats, calcareous soils
|elevation=700–1900 m
|distribution=Ariz.;N.Mex.;Tex.;Mexico (Chihuahua;Coahuila;Durango;Nuevo León;San Luis Potosí;Sonora;Zacatecas).
|reference=None
|publication title=Smithsonian Contr. Knowl.
|publication year=1852
|special status=
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V19-20-21/V21_156.xml
|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae
|subtribe=Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Ecliptinae
|genus=Zinnia
|species=Zinnia acerosa
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