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|accepted_name=Bebbia
|accepted_authority=Greene
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci.
|place=1: 179. 1885
|year=1885
}}
|common_names=Sweetbush
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae;Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Galinsoginae;Bebbia
|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 Galinsoginae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Bebbia]]</div></div>
|etymology=For Michael S. Bebb, 1833–1895, American botanist and willow specialist
|volume=Volume 21
|mention_page=page 176
|treatment_page=page 177
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Subshrubs </b>or shrubs, 50–140[–300] cm (often forming dense, rounded masses). <b>Stems</b> erect or spreading (glabrous or rough hairy [sparsely hirsute]). <b>Leaves</b> cauline; opposite (all or proximal) or alternate; sessile [petiolate]; blades linear to narrowly elliptic [± deltate, often hastate], sometimes lobed, ultimate margins entire [dentate], faces glabrous or ± scabrous [sparsely hirsute], sometimes gland-dotted or stipitate-glandular. <b>Heads</b> usually discoid (sometimes ± disciform), borne singly or in corymbiform arrays. <b>Involucres</b> ± campanulate or broader, 5–15 mm diam. <b>Phyllaries</b> persistent, 15–30[–40+] in 3–5 series (ovate or elliptic to lanceolate or lance-linear, strongly unequal; outer herbaceous, margins often chartaceous, ciliate, abaxial faces pubescent; inner more chartaceous, striate, margins ciliate, abaxial faces less pubescent to glabrate). <b>Receptacles</b> convex, paleate (paleae persistent, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate or linear-elliptic, conduplicate, each ± clasping a cypsela, scarious, striate, margins ciliate, abaxial faces glabrous or glabrate). <b>Ray</b> florets 0. <b>Disc</b> florets usually 20–50, bisexual, fertile (sometimes 2–8+ peripheral florets lack anthers); corollas yellow to orange, tubes shorter than narrowly funnelform throats, lobes 5, deltate. <b>Cypselae</b> ± compressed, ± obpyramidal, ± 3-angled, sericeous to strigillose; pappi of 15–25+ plumose, setiform scales in 1 series. <b>x</b> = 9.</span><!--

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|distribution=sw United States;n Mexico.
|discussion=<p>Species 2 (1 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=whalen1977a
|text=Whalen, M. 1977. Taxonomy of Bebbia (Compositae: Heliantheae). Madroño 24: 112–123.
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name=Bebbia
|author=Molly A. Whalen
|authority=Greene
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subtribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|illustrator=Barbara Alongi
|illustration copyright=Flora of North America Association
|distribution=sw United States;n Mexico.
|reference=whalen1977a
|publication title=Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci.
|publication year=1885
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae
|subtribe=Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Galinsoginae
|genus=Bebbia
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