View source for Baccharis texana

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|accepted_name=Baccharis texana
|accepted_authority=(Torrey & A. Gray) A. Gray
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts, n. s.
|place=4: 75. 1849
|year=1849
}}
|common_names=Prairie baccharis or false willow
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Linosyris texana
|authority=Torrey & A. Gray
|rank=species
|publication_title=Fl. N. Amer.
|publication_place=2: 232. 1842
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Astereae;Baccharis;Baccharis texana
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Astereae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Baccharis]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Baccharis texana]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=page 24
|treatment_page=page 33
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials </b>or subshrubs, 25–60 cm (rhizomatous, bases woody). <b>Stems</b> simple, erect or procumbent, rigid (woody proximally), herbaceous and leafy distally (dying back annually), striate-angled, glabrous, non-resinous. <b>Leaves</b> present at flowering; sessile; blades (1-nerved) linear to narrowly lanceolate, 10–40 × 1–4 mm, bases narrowed, margins minutely undulate, apices acute, faces glabrous, gland-dotted (distal leaves reduced, scalelike). <b>Heads</b> (on short peduncles) in loose corymbiform arrays. <b>Involucres</b> campanulate; staminate 4–7 mm, pistillate 7–9 mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> lanceolate, 1–7 mm, margins scarious, erose-ciliate, medians green (midribs dark, keeled, dilated), apices acute to acuminate (erose-ciliate, abaxial faces glabrous, minutely papillose-gland-dotted). <b>Staminate</b> florets 15–20; corollas 4–5 mm. <b>Pistillate</b> florets 20–30; corollas 3.5–4 mm. <b>Cypselae</b> 3–5 mm, prominently 6–8-nerved, glabrous; pappi 11–14 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Aug–Nov.
|habitat=Dry prairies, hillsides, mesas, brushy flats
|elevation=100–200 m
|distribution=N.Mex.;Okla.;Tex.;Mexico (Coahuila;Nuevo León;Tamaulipas).
|discussion=<p><i>Baccharis texana</i> is recognized by its low, subshrub habit, simple, more or less herbaceous and leafy stems arising from woody bases, narrow leaves with minutely undulate margins, large pedunculate heads, and erose-ciliate phyllaries with dilated midribs.</p>
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name=Baccharis texana
|authority=(Torrey & A. Gray) A. Gray
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Linosyris texana
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering Aug–Nov.
|habitat=Dry prairies, hillsides, mesas, brushy flats
|elevation=100–200 m
|distribution=N.Mex.;Okla.;Tex.;Mexico (Coahuila;Nuevo León;Tamaulipas).
|reference=None
|publication title=Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts, n. s.
|publication year=1849
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Astereae
|genus=Baccharis
|species=Baccharis texana
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