Acourtia wrightii
Phytologia27: 232. 1973
Common names: Brownfoot
Basionyms: Perezia wrightii
Plants 30–120 cm. Leaves cauline; sessile; blades oblong-lanceolate to elliptic-oblong, 2.5–13 cm, bases sagittate or clasping, margins dentate to denticulate, faces minutely stipitate-glandular and/or hirtellous (reticulate). Heads in corymbiform arrays. Involucres turbinate, 5–8 mm. Phyllaries in 2–3 series, linear to lanceolate, margins fimbrillate-glandular, apices obtuse to acute, abaxial faces glabrous or glandular-hairy. Receptacles reticulate (edges of sockets glandular). Florets 8–12; corollas pink or purple, 9–20 mm. Cypselae linear-fusiform, 2–6 mm, glandular-puberulent; pappi bright white, 9–12 mm. 2n = 54.
Phenology: Flowering Jun–Nov.
Habitat: Gravel, caliche, or sandy loamy soils in open desert (Lower Sonoran Desert)
Elevation: 400–1400 m
Phenology: Flowering Jun–Nov.
Habitat: Gravel, caliche, or sandy loamy soils in open desert (Lower Sonoran Desert)
Elevation: 400–1400 m
Distribution
Ariz., N.Mex., Tex., Utah, Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Sonora, Zacatecas).
Discussion
References
None.
Facts about "Acourtia wrightii"
Author | Beryl B. Simpson + |
Basionym | Perezia wrightii + |
Common name | Brownfoot + |
Elevation | 400–1400 m + |
Habitat | Gravel, caliche, or sandy loamy soils in open desert (Lower Sonoran Desert) + |
Illustrator | Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey + |
Phenology | Flowering Jun–Nov. + |
Reference | None + |
Taxon name | Acourtia wrightii + |
Taxon parent | Acourtia + |
Taxon rank | species + |
Volume | Volume 19 + |