WESTERN DWARF-DANDELION
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Krigia occidentalis Nutt.
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| Wildcat Glades Conservation & Audubon Center, Newton County, Missouri |
| Annual |
| Height: 1.5-6.3 inches |
| Family: Asteraceae - Sunflower Family |
| Flowering Period: April, May |
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| Stems: | | Erect, simple, glabrous or sparsely stipe-glandular distally. | | Leaves: | | Basal, alternate; petiole present; blade oblanceolate to ovate, .4 to 2.75 inch long, .08 to .4 inch wide, margins entire or few-lobed, surfaces glabrous or sparsely pubescent along margins and abaxially along veins. | | Inflorescences: | | Head, solitary, ligulate; involucres turbinate to campanulate, .16 to .28 inch; phyllaries 4-7 in 1-2 series, erect in fruit, lanceolate, apex acute. | | Flowers: | | Florets 6-25; corolla yellow to orange yellow, .2 to .3 inch. | | Fruits: | | Achenes brownish, obconic, .05 to .07 inch, glabrous, ribbed; pappus of 5 outer scales ca. .02 inch and usually 5 (sometimes 0) inner bristles, white, .05 to .08 inch. | | Habitat: | | Sandy, tallgrass prairies and sandstone glades | | Distribution: | | Southeast 1/4 of Kansas | | Origin: | | Native | | Comments: | | Krigia, for David Krieg, a German physician who collected plants in Delaware and Maryland and occidentalis, western. |
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| Western dwarf-dandelion |  | | 97 KB | | Wildcat Glades Conservation & Audubon Center, Newton County, Missouri |
| | Western dwarf-dandelion florets |  | | 64 KB | | Wildcat Glades Conservation & Audubon Center, Newton County, Missouri |
| | Western dwarf-dandelion leaves |  | | 121 KB | | Wildcat Glades Conservation & Audubon Center, Newton County, Missouri |
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