WEEDY DWARF-DANDELION
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Krigia cespitosa (Raf. ) K. L. Chambers
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| [=Krigia oppositifolia Raf.] |
| Morris County, Kansas |
| Annual |
| Height: 2-14 inches |
| Family: Asteraceae – Sunflower Family |
| Flowering Period: May, June |
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| Also Called: | | Common dwarf-dandelion. | | Stems: | | Ascending to erect, branched, glabrous or stipitate-glandular distally. | | Leaves: | | Basal and cauline. Basal leaves petiolate; blade spatulate to linear-oblanceolate, .8 to 6 inches long, .08 to .9 inch wide, margins entire or remotely dentate or few-lobed, surfaces glabrous or sparsely glandular-pubescent. Cauline leaves petiolate or sessile, 1-4, gradually reduced, oblanceolate to linear. | | Inflorescences: | | Heads 1. Peduncles terminal or axillary. Calyculate bractlets 0. Involucres turbinate to campanulate, .08 to .2 inch. Phyllaries 5-10, erect in fruit, ovate or lanceolate, apex acute. | | Flowers: | | Florets 12-35; corolla yellow, .08 to .28 inch long. | | Fruits: | | Achenes brown, obovoid, .05 to .06 inch, glabrous; pappus absent. Seed 1. | | Habitat: | | Tallgrass and sand prairies, glades, clearings in oak-hickory woodlands, especially in moist soil | | Distribution: | | East 1/2 of Kansas | | Comments: | | Our plants belong to the widespread var. cespitosa.
Krigia for David Krieg, a German physician who collected plants in Delaware and Maryland and cespitosa, stemless. |
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