involucral
Americanadjective
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Involucral scales few, mostly scarious.
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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.
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Involucral scales in a single row, erect-connivent, with a few bractlets at the base.
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Involucral scales several, in about 2 rows, thin.
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H. aurantìacum, L. Low, long-hirsute, above hispid and glandular, the involucral hairs dark; leaves all near the base of the simple peduncle; heads clustered; flowers deep orange to flame-color.—Roadsides and fields; N. Eng. to N. Y.
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