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Annual to tree
Leaves basal or cauline, alternate to whorled, simple to compound
Inflorescence: 1° inflorescence a head, each resembling a flower, 1many, generally arrayed in cymes, generally subtended by ± calyx-like involucre; flowers 1many per head
Flowers bisexual, unisexual, or sterile, ± small, of several types; calyx 0 or modified into pappus of bristles, scales, or awns, which is generally persistent in fruit; corolla radial or bilateral (rarely 0), lobes generally (0)45; stamens 45, anthers generally fused into cylinder around style, often appendaged at tips, bases, or both, filaments generally free, generally attached to corolla near throat; pistil 1, ovary inferior, 1-chambered, 1-seeded, style 1, branches 2, generally hair-tufted at tip, stigmas 2, generally on inside of style branches
Fruit: achene, cylindric to ovoid, generally deciduous with pappus attached
Genera in family: ± 1300 genera, 21,000 species (largest family of dicots): worldwide. Largest family in CA. Also see tribal key to CA genera: Strother 1997 Madroño 44(1):128. See glossary p. 25 for illustrations of general family characteristics.
Perennial from ± woody caudex or shrub (rarely annual)
Leaves alternate or opposite, simple, veiny, generally resinous-dotted
Inflorescence: heads discoid, generally clustered; involucre cylindric to bell-shaped; phyllaries overlapping, strongly nerved; receptacle generally flat, chaff 0
Flowers: corollas cylindric, ± white or tinged red; anther bases rounded or slightly cordate, tips ovate; style branches long, club-shaped, tips rounded
Fruit 10-ribbed, generally cylindric, hairy; pappus generally of many, generally scabrous bristles
Etymology: (John Brickell, early botanist in Georgia)
Reference: [King & Robinson 1987 Monogr Syst Bot Missouri Bot Gard 22:220224]
Native |
Shrub 24 dm
Stems much-branched, zigzag, glandular-puberulent
Leaves alternate, subsessile, 12 cm, ovate, leathery, prominently toothed or entire, scabrous, generally glandular-puberulent
Inflorescence: heads 1315 mm, solitary; involucre bell-shaped; phyllaries 2633, overlapping to subequal; outer lance-ovate, ± entire to dentate, inner linear, 413-nerved, greenish, generally minutely scabrous, tips erect
Flowers 4055
Fruit 4 mm
Ecology: Rocky places
Elevation: < 1500 m.
Bioregional distribution: Desert
Distribution outside California: n Baja California
Perhaps same as B. atractyloides.
Native |
Inflorescence: outer phyllaries ± entire
Chromosomes: 2n=18
Ecology: Common.Habitats and range of sp.
Bioregional distribution: Desert
Flowering time: MarJun
Horticultural information: DRN, SUN: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21; STBL.