View source for Eucephalus elegans

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|accepted_name=Eucephalus elegans
|accepted_authority=Nuttall
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., n. s.
|place=7: 298. 1840
|year=1840
}}
|common_names=Elegant aster
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
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|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Aster perelegans
|authority=A. Nelson & J. F. Macbride
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Eucephalus perelegans
|authority=(A. Nelson & J. F. Macbride) W. A. Weber
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Astereae;Eucephalus;Eucephalus elegans
|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>[[Eucephalus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Eucephalus elegans]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 40
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials </b>30–70 cm (caudices woody; herbage scabrous). <b>Stems</b> erect, moderately scabrous and/or glandular. <b>Leaves</b>: mid and cauline blades linear-oblong or linear-lanceolate, 2–6 cm × 3–10 mm, faces moderately scabrous and ± short-stipitate-glandular. <b>Heads</b> 3–8(–15) in racemiform to corymbiform arrays. <b>Peduncles</b> glandular-puberulent. <b>Involucres</b> turbinate-cylindric, 6–9 mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> in 3–5 series (often purplish at margins), ovate, margins eciliate, apices acute, abaxial faces moderately to densely puberulent and glandular. <b>Rays</b> usually 5 or 8, purple. <b>Cypselae</b> strigose; pappus bristles in 2 series, barbellate. <b>2n</b> = 18.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Jul–Aug.
|habitat=Open meadows, aspen forests, rocky open slopes
|elevation=1100–3200 m
|distribution=Colo.;Idaho;Mont.;Nev.;Oreg.;Utah.
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|references=
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Eucephalus elegans
|authority=Nuttall
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Aster perelegans;Eucephalus perelegans
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering Jul–Aug.
|habitat=Open meadows, aspen forests, rocky open slopes
|elevation=1100–3200 m
|distribution=Colo.;Idaho;Mont.;Nev.;Oreg.;Utah.
|reference=None
|publication title=Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., n. s.
|publication year=1840
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Astereae
|genus=Eucephalus
|species=Eucephalus elegans
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