Difference between revisions of "Diaperia prolifera var. barnebyi"

Morefield

Novon 14: 470. 2004.

Common names: Barneby rabbit-tobacco
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 19. Treatment on page 463.
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Plants silvery white, 3–9 cm, tightly sericeous. Stems mostly 1–5; branches equal to unequal, distal strictly ascending to erect. Leaves: largest 7–11 × 2–3 mm; capitular leaves erect, involucral, proximally carinate, becoming indurate. Heads borne singly, or 2–3 in largest glomerules. Receptacles narrowly conic, 0.9–1.1 mm, heights mostly 2–2.4 times diams. Pistillate paleae: longest 2.5–3.2 mm.


Phenology: Flowering and fruiting mid Apr–mid Jun.
Habitat: Open, dry, shallow rocky or gravelly soils, usually over limestone or gypsum, sometimes with extra moisture (dry drainages, disturbed places)
Elevation: 500–1500 m

Discussion

Variety barnebyi is not particularly weedy. It occurs in southwestern Oklahoma, southeastern New Mexico, and western Texas (nearly to Mexico), largely allopatric with var. prolifera.

Selected References

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Lower Taxa

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James D. Morefield +
Morefield +
Evax prolifera +
Barneby rabbit-tobacco +
N.Mex. +, Okla. +  and Tex. +
500–1500 m +
Open, dry, shallow rocky or gravelly soils, usually over limestone or gypsum, sometimes with extra moisture (dry drainages, disturbed places) +
Flowering and fruiting mid Apr–mid Jun. +
Illustrated +  and Endemic +
Evax sect. Diaperia +
Diaperia prolifera var. barnebyi +
Diaperia prolifera +
variety +