Key to Cotula
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(For a list of species in Cotula, use the above link.)
Jepson Manual glossary definitions can be seen by moving your cursor over words underlined with dots.
1. Annual, minutely
strigose With stiff, straight, sharp, appressed hairs.
to long-soft-hairy;
leaf Organ arising from a stem, generally composed of a stalk (petiole) and a flat, expanded, green, photosynthetic area (blade); distinguished from a leaflet by the presence in its axil of a bud, branch, thorn, or flower; sometimes with lateral, basal appendages (stipules); either simple (toothed, lobed, or dissected but not divided into leaflets) or compound (divided into leaflets).
blade Expanded portion of a leaf, petal, or other structure, generally flat but sometimes rolled, cylindric, wavy, or cupped.
2–3-pinnately divided;
involucre Group of bracts more or less held together as a unit, subtending a flower, fruit (acorn cup), or inflorescence.
3–6 mm diam;
pistillate flowers generally 8–40 in ± 1–3+
series ..... C. australis 1' Perennial herb,
glabrous, ±
fleshy; leaf blade
entire Having margins that are continuous and smooth (i.e., without teeth, lobes, etc.).
or irregularly toothed or lobed; involucre 6–15 mm diam; pistillate flowers 12–40+ in 1 series
..... C. coronopifolia
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