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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Vernonia gigantea
|accepted_authority=(Walter) Branner & Coville
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Rep. (Annual) Arkansas Geol. Surv.
|place=4: 189. 1891
|year=1891
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Chrysocoma gigantea
|authority=Walter
|publication_title=Fl. Carol.,
|publication_place=196. 1788
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Vernonia altissima
|authority=Nuttall
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Vernonia altissima var. taeniotricha
|authority=S. F. Blake
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Vernonia gigantea subsp. ovalifolia
|authority=(Torrey & A. Gray) Urbatsch
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Vernonia ovalifolia
|authority=unknown
}}
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Vernonieae;Vernonia;Vernonia gigantea
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Vernonieae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Vernonia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Vernonia gigantea]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 19
|mention_page=page 208
|treatment_page=page 212
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>8–20(–30+) dm. <b>Stems</b> puberulent, glabrescent. <b>Leaves</b> mostly cauline; blades ± lanceolate, 12–25+ cm × 20–60+ mm, l/w = (3.5–)4–7+, abaxially scabrellous (hairs awl-shaped), sometimes glabrescent, not or sparsely resin-gland-dotted, adaxially strigillose, glabrescent, not resin-gland-dotted. <b>Heads</b> in corymbiform-scorpioid arrays. <b>Peduncles</b> 1–12(–20+) mm. <b>Involucres</b> broadly campanulate to hemispheric, 4–5+ × 4–5 mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> 30–40+ in 4–5 series, glabrate, margins ciliolate, the outer lance-ovate, 1–2 mm, inner oblong, 3.5–5 mm, tips acute or rounded-apiculate. <b>Florets</b> (9–)18–24(–30). <b>Cypselae</b> 2.5–3.5 mm; pappi usually purplish, sometimes stramineous, outer scales 20–25, 0.5–1 mm, contrasting with 35–40+, 4.5–6+ mm inner bristles. <b>2n</b> = 34.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Jun–Sep.
|habitat=Flood plains
|elevation=10–300 m
|distribution=Ont.;Ala.;Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Md.;Mich.;Miss.;Mo.;Nebr.;N.C.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.;W.Va.
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Vernonia gigantea
|author=
|authority=(Walter) Branner & Coville
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Vernonia altissima;Vernonia altissima var. taeniotricha;Vernonia gigantea subsp. ovalifolia;Vernonia ovalifolia
|basionyms=Chrysocoma gigantea
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering Jun–Sep.
|habitat=Flood plains
|elevation=10–300 m
|distribution=Ont.;Ala.;Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Md.;Mich.;Miss.;Mo.;Nebr.;N.C.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.;W.Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Rep. (Annual) Arkansas Geol. Surv.
|publication year=1891
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Vernonieae
|genus=Vernonia
|species=Vernonia gigantea
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