Gomphrena haageana

Klotzsch

Allg. Gartenzeitung 21: 297. 1853.

Common names: Rio Grande globe-amaranth
Illustrated
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 4. Treatment on page 454. Mentioned on page 451, 452.

Plants perennial, not cespitose, 2–7 dm; roots primary, fusiform, fleshy. Stems erect, pilose. Leaves sessile or petiolate; petiole to 2 cm; blade green, oblanceolate to oblong-linear, 3–10 × 0.3–1 cm, apex acute to acuminate, mucronate, pilose. Inflorescences: heads stramineous, globose to short-cylindric, 20–28 mm diam.; bractlets crested along keel. Flowers: tube densely lanate; perianth lobes stramineous, linear-lanceolate, 5.3 mm, hyaline, apex acuminate. Utricles ovoid, 2.2 mm, apex acute. Seeds 1.4 mm.


Phenology: Flowering fall.
Habitat: Rocky banks
Elevation: 1200-1500 m

Distribution

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N.Mex., Tex., Mexico (Coahuila, Nuevo León, Sonora).

Discussion

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