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- (2–) 20–500 cm. Leaves usually mostly cauline, rarely mostly basal; mostly opposite (distal often alternate) or mostly alternate, rarely whorled; petiolate10 KB (633 words) - 23:14, 29 July 2020
- in ± 2 series (usually distinct, rarely connate ± 1/10 their lengths, mostly oblong to linear, ± membranous, margins ± scarious). Receptacles flat to convex12 KB (827 words) - 23:22, 29 July 2020
- usually glabrous, sometimes stipitate-glandular (mostly distally). Leaves basal and cauline or mostly cauline; basal usually petiolate (petioles usually9 KB (535 words) - 20:13, 29 July 2020
- intergrading with distal peduncular bracts, mostly 1/5–1/2+ times phyllaries), sometimes 0. Involucres mostly cylindric or turbinate to campanulate, 5–1530 KB (1,295 words) - 21:10, 29 July 2020
- Leaves mostly basal or mostly cauline; usually opposite (distal sometimes alternate); petiolate or sessile; blades (often 3-nerved or 5-nerved) mostly deltate10 KB (606 words) - 23:21, 29 July 2020
- series and orbiculate to oblong, lance-oblong, lanceolate, or linear, unequal, or (with calyculi) 12–25+ in 2–3 series and oblong or lanceolate to linear16 KB (748 words) - 20:19, 29 July 2020
- usually distinct, sometimes connate 0.05–0.1 their lengths, mostly oblong or ovate to lance-oblong, chartaceous to membranous or scarious (usually striate22 KB (1,036 words) - 23:27, 29 July 2020
- mm diam. Phyllaries persistent, 4–6 in 1–2 series, erect, distinct, mostly oblong to ovate or lanceolate, equal or subequal, margins obscurely scarious10 KB (537 words) - 21:25, 29 July 2020
- 5–13 [–20] mm diam. Phyllaries persistent, mostly 21–35+ in 3–5 series, distinct, deltate to lanceolate, oblong, or elliptic, unequal, margins and apices8 KB (572 words) - 20:51, 29 July 2020
- petiolate; blades deltate to ovate or oblong (in broad outline), usually 1–2-ternately lobed (lobes mostly oblong to obovate), ultimate margins entire or6 KB (557 words) - 00:03, 30 July 2020
- 5–7 mm. Peduncles 0 or very rarely 1–2 mm. Phyllaries in 3–6 series, mostly oblong-obovate, unequal, essentially glabrous, margins without hyaline borders6 KB (522 words) - 22:53, 29 July 2020
- distinct, erect, mostly oblong or ovate, equal, membranous. Receptacles concave to flat, paleate; paleae similar to phyllaries, oblong or oval to lanceolate8 KB (547 words) - 23:29, 29 July 2020
- 10–34+, pistillate, fertile; corollas white [seldom pinkish], laminae mostly oblong. Disc-florets 300–500, bisexual, fertile; corollas yellow [greenish]10 KB (898 words) - 20:53, 29 July 2020
- America Association Annuals or perennials, 3–6 dm. Phyllaries (8–) 12–16, mostly oblong to ovate or obovate. Rays 0. Disc-florets 15–30; corollas white or pinkish4 KB (559 words) - 00:02, 30 July 2020
- and proximal cauline) or sessile (distal); blades (pinnately nerved) mostly oblong to lanceolate, usually 1 (–2) -pinnately lobed, bases ± cuneate, ultimate7 KB (580 words) - 23:04, 29 July 2020
- Involucres cylindric, 11–15 × 4–7 mm. Phyllaries in 3–4 series, mostly oblong to oblong-oblanceolate, unequal, essentially glabrous, margins with hyaline7 KB (645 words) - 22:54, 29 July 2020
- 1–2 series, erect, distinct (margins interlocking) [connate at bases], mostly oblong or lanceolate to linear, subequal, margins usually ± scarious (tips greenish7 KB (484 words) - 21:22, 29 July 2020
- Trophophores ascending to perpendicular to stem, sessile or stalked; blades linear, oblong, or deltate, simple to 5-pinnate, 4–25 × 1–35 cm. Pinnae (reduced to segments19 KB (579 words) - 15:29, 15 December 2020
- Treatment appears in FNA Volume 21. Treatment on page 479. Leaf-blades mostly oblong to oblong-lanceolate, bases cordate to truncate (often subauriculate), margins2 KB (404 words) - 22:45, 29 July 2020
- rostellum lobes mostly parallel to slightly diverging, directed downward, minute, obscure; pollinia remaining enclosed in anther sacs; viscidia mostly quadrangular7 KB (533 words) - 05:25, 30 July 2020
- (usually convex and without prominent midnerves) outermost linear-oblong and mostly green, oblong-lanceolate, subequal to unequal, white-indurate proximally,7 KB (543 words) - 21:29, 29 July 2020
- whorled, distally alternate; petiolate (at least basal) or sessile; blades mostly lance-linear, oblanceolate, ovate, or spatulate, margins entire, lobed,9 KB (598 words) - 00:03, 30 July 2020
- wrote: “Like 4 [i.e., A. hortensis] but the leaves white beneath; bracteoles oblong-cordate, conspicuously reticulate-veined.” Specimens having at least some45 KB (1,022 words) - 09:34, 30 July 2020
- sessile-glandular). Leaves basal and cauline or mostly cauline; alternate; usually sessile; blades mostly narrowly lanceolate to oblanceolate, bases often17 KB (673 words) - 20:34, 29 July 2020
- depressed-ovoid or napiform, sometimes elongated, becoming rhizomes, roots all or mostly adventitious). Stems erect, simple or basally branched. Leaves basal and24 KB (826 words) - 22:52, 29 July 2020
- 5 mm. Stem mostly branched; axillary hyaline nodules absent; central strand present. Leaves as many as 60 pairs, somewhat undulate, oblong to lanceolate9 KB (726 words) - 06:53, 30 July 2020
- Stems decumbent or procumbent (rooting at nodes). Leaf-blades usually oblong to oblong-lanceolate or oblanceolate to ovate, sometimes triangular, 2.5–5 (–11)4 KB (428 words) - 22:45, 29 July 2020
- glabrous abaxially. Basal segments of pinnules opposite; ultimate segments mostly oblong-ovate, base inequilaterally cuneate, margins incised-dentate. Sori globose5 KB (397 words) - 00:29, 30 July 2020
- sparsely lanate. Leaves mostly basal; blades narrowly spatulate, 2–6 cm, margins lobed or toothed (lobes or teeth mostly oblong), faces sparsely lanate5 KB (609 words) - 22:30, 29 July 2020
- stipitate-glands mostly 0.3–1 mm, often variable, stalks broadened toward bases, about equaling gland widths). Leaf-blades mostly oblong-lanceolate, 2.5–75 KB (535 words) - 20:34, 29 July 2020
- Involucres turbinate, 6–8 × 5–7 mm. Phyllaries in 3–4 (–5) series, mostly oblong, unequal, essentially glabrous, margins with hyaline borders (0.2–0.46 KB (492 words) - 22:55, 29 July 2020
- tepals white or slightly greenish white, 4–5 × 2–2.5 cm. Berries mostly erect, oblong, 6-winged or 6-ribbed, 2.5–4.5 cm. Phenology: Flowering spring. Habitat:4 KB (518 words) - 06:11, 30 July 2020
- setose). Leaves basal and cauline or mostly cauline (at flowering); sessile or petiolate; blades orbiculate, ovate, oblong, or lanceolate to oblanceolate, linear10 KB (574 words) - 20:12, 29 July 2020
- (± pinnately nerved) elongate-deltate, lanceolate, lyrate, oblanceolate, oblong, obovate, ovate, or spatulate, sometimes pinnately lobed to pinnatifid (usually12 KB (738 words) - 23:03, 29 July 2020
- strongly crispate when dry, ovate to linear-lanceolate; vaginant laminae mostly acute, equal, ending on or near margin, or unequal, minor lamina ending33 KB (1,761 words) - 06:53, 30 July 2020
- perennials, 10–70 [–150] cm. Stems erect, branched. Leaves basal and cauline; mostly alternate (proximal opposite); petiolate; blades 2-ternately [pinnately]7 KB (564 words) - 00:02, 30 July 2020
- Leaves basal and cauline or mostly cauline; alternate; petiolate (proximal) or sessile (distal); cauline blades 1-nerved, oblong, obovate, oblanceolate, or23 KB (1,525 words) - 22:29, 29 July 2020
- sometimes sessile; blade usually reduced distally, usually linear to lanceolate, oblong, or obovate, rarely deltate, with 1 [or 2] ± conspicuous submarginal vein30 KB (1,654 words) - 21:01, 7 June 2022
- protandrous and subsessile on short pedicellar joints; anthers are mostly linear-oblong or oblong-elliptic, two- to four-sporangiate, bilocular; style base is10 KB (485 words) - 01:32, 30 July 2020
- stipitate-glandular, sometimes lightly villous as well. Leaf-blades mostly narrowly oblong-lanceolate, 4–10 cm × 5–10 (–20) mm (relatively even-sized distally)5 KB (538 words) - 20:35, 29 July 2020
- Phyllaries (in 3–4 series) 1–1.3 mm wide, unequal, pilose-ciliate; outer mostly green, oblong, blunt, inner spatulate or linear-oblanceolate. Ray-florets 6–10;9 KB (798 words) - 21:33, 29 July 2020
- asterids (sympetaly, stamen number equal to petal number, stamen epipetaly, mostly 2–3-carpellate gynoecia); campanulids (early sympetaly), comprising eight275 KB (5,940 words) - 15:30, 15 December 2020
- incompletely annular, surrounding copious farinose perisperm. Worldwide, mostly tropics, subtropics, warm-temperate zones Species ca. 32 (10 in the flora)15 KB (986 words) - 09:28, 30 July 2020
- Leaves sessile; blades (thick, reticulate-veined) oblong to elliptic, lanceovate, or ovate, mostly 3–10 (–13) × 1–4 cm (bases clasping), margins denticulate7 KB (639 words) - 20:43, 29 July 2020
- cauline; alternate; petiolate or sessile; blades mostly elliptic, filiform, lanceolate, linear, oblong, ovate, or spatulate, often 1–2-pinnately or ternately13 KB (688 words) - 22:34, 29 July 2020
- petiolate, sometimes sessile; blades mostly cordate, deltate, elliptic, lanceolate, linear, oblanceolate, oblong, obovate, ovate, rhombic, or spatulate17 KB (818 words) - 23:57, 29 July 2020
- shrubs, (3–) 10–200 (–400+) [2500+] cm. Leaves usually cauline, sometimes mostly basal, or basal and cauline; opposite, alternate, or both; petiolate or21 KB (800 words) - 22:59, 29 July 2020
- in Coreopsis auriculata). Leaves usually cauline (sometimes mostly basal); usually mostly opposite (distal sometimes alternate), rarely whorled; petiolate12 KB (744 words) - 23:22, 29 July 2020
- awns, and/or scales (scales often aristate). Nearly worldwide, mostly in Old World, mostly at temperate latitudes, some species widely Genera ca. 100, species30 KB (805 words) - 20:06, 29 July 2020
- subshrubs, or shrubs (herbage often aromatic). Leaves usually cauline, sometimes mostly basal; alternate [opposite]; usually petiolate, sometimes sessile; margins23 KB (1,089 words) - 20:43, 29 July 2020
- locular, placentation free-central, basal, or axile in proximal half; ovules mostly campylotropous, bitegmic, crassinucellate; styles 1-5 (-6), distinct or29 KB (1,113 words) - 10:14, 30 July 2020
- perennials, subshrubs, shrubs, or trees. Leaves usually cauline, sometimes mostly basal; alternate [opposite, whorled]; usually petiolate, sometimes sessile;79 KB (1,886 words) - 20:55, 29 July 2020
- to spreading, deltate; style-branch appendages mostly deltate (papillate). Cypselae (tan) oblong to oblong-obovoid, compressed to flattened, 2 (–4) -nerved97 KB (2,063 words) - 21:58, 29 July 2020
- Leaves usually cauline, sometimes mostly basal or basal and cauline; usually wholly or partly opposite, sometimes mostly whorled or alternate; usually petiolate30 KB (1,803 words) - 22:30, 29 July 2020
- lingulate, often channeled or keeled, rarely concave, mostly ca. 1.5–3.5 mm; base usually ovate to oblong, occasionally sheathing the stem; margins usually28 KB (882 words) - 07:00, 30 July 2020
- cauline or mostly cauline; alternate; petiolate or sessile; blades mostly deltate, elliptic, lanceolate, linear, lyrate, oblanceolate, oblong, ovate, pandurate9 KB (600 words) - 23:53, 29 July 2020
- lanceovate, lance-rhombic, linear, oblong, obovate, ovate, rhombic-ovate, spatulate, or suborbiculate, margins mostly crenate, dentate, entire, laciniate-dentate17 KB (617 words) - 22:47, 29 July 2020
- erect-spreading to patent when wet, lanceolate to ovatelanceolate, less often ovate, oblong-ovate, linear, or lingulate, keeled, canaliculate, to broadly concave, smooth13 KB (824 words) - 06:47, 30 July 2020
- usually lobed to dissected, sometimes dentate or entire (usually spiny). Heads mostly homogamous (usually discoid, sometimes disciform or radiant, then peripheral15 KB (836 words) - 20:05, 29 July 2020
- usually 3-nerved (1-nerved in H. eggertii, H. smithii, and H. maximiliani), mostly deltate, lance-linear, lanceolate, lanceovate, linear, or ovate, bases cordate32 KB (1,118 words) - 23:14, 29 July 2020
- scales (scales often aristate) or awns, sometimes of bristles and scales. Mostly subtropics, tropics, and warm-temperate New World, also in Old World Genera17 KB (728 words) - 22:41, 29 July 2020
- bases, or pinnately nerved, mostly deltate or ovate to lanceolate or linear (and intermediate shapes, sometimes elliptic, oblong, rhombic, or suborbiculate17 KB (791 words) - 22:42, 29 July 2020
- linear to oblong or deltate, often papillate at recurved or hooded apex; stamens 6, exserted, attached atop or within perianth-tube; filaments mostly filiform;24 KB (1,110 words) - 06:12, 30 July 2020
- subshrubs, or shrubs [perennials], mostly 10–80 (–200) cm. Stems erect, branched distally or ± throughout. Leaves cauline; mostly opposite (distal sometimes alternate);11 KB (696 words) - 15:28, 15 December 2020
- occasionally distally uniparous due to suppression of secondary branches; branches mostly dichotomous except for initial trichotomous node, not brittle or disarticulating22 KB (1,627 words) - 10:29, 30 July 2020
- clonal. Rootstock usually brownish to whitish, usually not exfoliating. Stems mostly erect, sometimes laxly so, or decumbent, prostrate, or creeping. Leaves16 KB (1,157 words) - 21:03, 7 June 2022
- cm. Leaves cauline; opposite or alternate; petiolate or sessile; blades mostly deltate to ovate or lanceolate overall, sometimes cordate, linear, reniform7 KB (521 words) - 23:47, 29 July 2020
- 7, 8, 9, 10 (polyploidy widespread in the genus). Almost worldwide, but mostly in temperate regions of both hemispheres, some taxa occur in many regions41 KB (1,085 words) - 10:05, 30 July 2020
- base distal to articulations (Eriogonum); perianth accrescent in fruit, mostly white to red, yellow, light green, greenish white, maroon, or purple, urceolate21 KB (927 words) - 10:29, 30 July 2020
- often gland-dotted, sometimes resinous or stipitate-glandular. Leaves (mostly persistent) cauline (often crowded, axillary leaf fascicles sometimes present);23 KB (1,156 words) - 22:11, 29 July 2020
- usually trigonous, wiry to stout. Leaves basal and cauline, polystichous, mostly 3-ranked; sheaths open apically, glabrous; ligules present or absent; blades38 KB (1,253 words) - 01:40, 30 July 2020
- Carex (section Key E. Spikes 2+ per culm, at least some flowers pistillate; stigmas (2–)3(–4); achenes usually ± trigonous in cross section; body of perigynium glabrous or papillose, papillae then mostly not longer than wide; bracts sheathless or sheath less than 4 mm, rarely longer, then sheath shorter than diameter of stem)have a ligule at the junction of the blade and the sheath. The ligule is mostly fused to the blade, with a narrow, entire or erose-ciliate free portion80 KB (3,349 words) - 15:29, 15 December 2020
- shrubs, 1–200 cm. Leaves basal, basal and cauline, or mostly cauline; mostly opposite (Lasthenia) or mostly alternate; usually sessile, sometimes obscurely petiolate;11 KB (627 words) - 23:52, 29 July 2020
- covering abaxial surface, if in discrete sori then variously shaped (round, oblong, or elongate); receptacle not or only slightly elevated, with or without15 KB (567 words) - 00:33, 30 July 2020
- absent during winter, mostly linear to oblong to oblong deltate (deltate in B. lanceolatum), lobed to 1–2 (–3) -pinnate, mostly less than 2.5 cm wide when5 KB (560 words) - 00:23, 30 July 2020
- (irregular in size and shape). > 13 12 Blades oblong-lanceolate, mostly 2- pinnate; pinnae lanceolate to oblong- lanceolate. Asplenium cristatum 12 Blades11 KB (330 words) - 00:25, 30 July 2020
- (–120+) [200+] cm. Leaves mostly cauline, sometimes basal or basal and cauline; mostly opposite (distal sometimes alternate) or mostly alternate; petiolate11 KB (674 words) - 23:30, 29 July 2020
- unbranched, rarely ± to much-branched or stellate. Leaves mostly deciduous, cauline, mostly alternate, reduced proximally or forming basal rosettes in79 KB (2,746 words) - 18:50, 29 July 2020
- summer in D. cymosa subsp. marcescens and D. parva); petiole absent; blade mostly laminar, sometimes subterete, turgid ± throughout. Cymes: branches 2-3 (-6)10 KB (581 words) - 12:54, 30 July 2020
- multifid. Fruits usually capsules (achenes in C. michauxii). Seeds ellipsoid, oblong, ovoid, globose, or lenticular; caruncle present. x = 8, 9, 10, 14. North24 KB (874 words) - 18:18, 29 July 2020
- Capsules 3-valved, 3-locular. Seeds 2 per locule (1 in T. spathacea); hilum oblong to linear; embryotega abaxial to lateral. x = 6–8, probably others. Neotemperate17 KB (671 words) - 00:52, 30 July 2020
- anthers whitish yellow, pink to purple or orange-pink, elliptic to oblong; styles (2–) 3, mostly spreading, distinct or connate proximally; stigmas 2–3, capitate11 KB (904 words) - 10:08, 30 July 2020
- spreading, straight or curved, sometimes recurved when wet, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, less often elliptic, ovate to lingulate, keeled to canaliculate-concave;11 KB (655 words) - 06:51, 30 July 2020
- stout. Flowers: sepals erect or spreading, linear, lanceolate, elliptic, oblong, ovate, or deltate, lateral pair usually saccate basally, sometimes subsaccate40 KB (1,647 words) - 11:54, 30 July 2020
- erect, branched mostly from bases. Leaves mostly basal; opposite or alternate; petiolate (bases persisting as fibrils); blades (mostly pinnately nerved13 KB (768 words) - 23:05, 29 July 2020
- white, yellow, amber, or gray, ovoid to ellipsoid, reniform, globular, oblong, or angled; embryo straight, endosperm present. nearly worldwide, especially19 KB (841 words) - 19:24, 29 July 2020
- communis; usually in terminal panicles in Taxodium), simple, spheric to oblong; sporophylls overlapping, bearing 2–10 abaxial microsporangia (pollen-sacs);17 KB (1,137 words) - 00:30, 30 July 2020
- winged (Astilbe, Jepsonia, Sullivantia), ellipsoid, fusiform, ovoid, oblong, spheroid, oblong-cylindric, flat, or straight on 1 side, convex on other, rarely27 KB (1,591 words) - 13:14, 30 July 2020
- densely hairy. Leaves usually mostly cauline; mostly alternate (proximal sometimes opposite); petiolate or sessile; blades mostly elliptic, lanceolate, linear13 KB (702 words) - 15:32, 15 December 2020
- blade elliptic, lanceolate, obovate, or ovate, sometimes cordate, ovoid, oblong, or orbiculate, (4–) 10–40 (–63) × (3–) 5–40 mm, rugose in R. rugosa, abaxial24 KB (1,103 words) - 13:51, 30 July 2020
- blades, rachises and costae with or usually without scales. Sori round, oblong, or elongate along veins, commonly medial to supramedial; indusia round-reniform14 KB (584 words) - 00:28, 30 July 2020
- and/or cauline; mostly opposite (usually 1–10 pairs, distalmost sometimes alternate and usually smaller); petiolate or sessile; blades mostly cordate, deltate16 KB (834 words) - 23:57, 29 July 2020
- Sori inframedial to supramedial, occasionally nearly marginal, round or oblong, rarely elongate along veins; indusia reniform or sometimes absent. Spores7 KB (310 words) - 00:34, 30 July 2020
- bilabiate, rotate to salverform, tubular, funnelform, or campanulate; stamens mostly 4 or 5 (–8 in Myoporum), adnate to corolla, didynamous or equal, staminode15 KB (926 words) - 19:11, 29 July 2020
- decumbent to ascending or erect (leafy or subscapiform, often red-tinged), mostly simple. Leaves basal and cauline; alternate; basal usually short-petiolate15 KB (811 words) - 22:27, 29 July 2020
- cupulate, campanulate, salverform, or funnelform; stamens (2–) 3–5, with 4 mostly connate in pairs, appearing as only (1–) 3 stamens; anthers connate or distinct19 KB (877 words) - 11:15, 30 July 2020
- usually oblanceolate or oblong-oblanceolate, rhombic-oblanceolate, oblong, elliptic, or ovate, to spatulate, sometimes oblong-triangular, 1.5–12 (–17)10 KB (763 words) - 13:01, 30 July 2020
- (usually ± erect in fruit, distinct or ± connate, narrowly oblong to broadly ovate, mostly herbaceous, bases flat or weakly cupped, faces not woolly, except11 KB (916 words) - 23:52, 29 July 2020
- (10–) 20–80 (–120) cm. Leaves mostly basal and/or cauline; alternate; petiolate or sessile; blades 1-nerved or 3-nerved, mostly elliptic, linear, oblanceolate7 KB (512 words) - 22:41, 29 July 2020
- blades mostly elliptic, lanceolate, oblanceolate, oblong, obovate, or ovate, bases clasping or not, margins entire or dentate, abaxial faces mostly arachnose14 KB (712 words) - 20:43, 29 July 2020