involucral
Americanadjective
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Leaves 2-lobed, subtransverse, complicate-concave; underleaves none; involucral leaves 2–3-cleft.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
Leaves lanceolate or linear; involucral scales erect or the lower tips spreading; achenes with 1 or 2 short teeth at the summit; awns 2.—Prairies, eastern Kan. to Ark., and southward.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
Receptacle elongated or top-shaped, naked at the summit, but chaffy at the margins or toward the base; the chaff resembling the proper involucral scales, each covering a single pistillate flower.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
Creeping, pinnately compound, the branches often flagellate; leaves decurved, subquadrate, 3–4-cleft; involucral leaves ovate, truncate, unequally 4-toothed; perianth incurved, dentate.—On the ground and rotten wood, N. J., and common northward.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
Leaves firm and rather rigid; involucral scales thickish, obtuse, quite unequal.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
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