Silphium albiflorum

A. Gray

Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 19: 4. 1883.

Common names: White rosinweed
Endemic
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 21. Treatment on page 78. Mentioned on page 77.

Plants scapiform, 20–75 cm; taprooted. Stems terete, glabrous, hirsute, hispid, or scabrous. Leaves: basal persistent, petiolate; cauline usually alternate, rarely subopposite, petiolate or sessile; blades deltate, elliptic, linear, ovate, or rhombic, 2–40 × 1.5–26 cm, sometimes (proximal) 1–2-pinnately lobed, bases attenuate, cuneate, or truncate, ultimate margins unevenly toothed or entire (distal blades), apices acuminate to apiculate, faces scabrous to hirsute. Phyllaries 23–36 in 2–3 series, outer reflexed, apices acuminate, abaxial faces hispid. Ray-florets 14–30; corollas white. Disc-florets 70–130; corollas white. Cypselae 12–26 × 7–12 mm; pappi 2–5 mm.


Phenology: Flowering late spring–summer.
Habitat: Prairies, open fields, calcareous soils
Elevation: 100–500 m

Discussion

Selected References

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Lower Taxa

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"broader" is not a number.

... more about "Silphium albiflorum"
not tailed +, rounded +  and obtuse +
connate +  and distinct +
acuminate;acuminate;apiculate +
subequal +
scarious +
usually ovate +  and lanceolate +
usually deltate +  and lanceolate +
racemiform +  and paniculiform +
indeterminate +  and determinate +
Jennifer A. Clevinger +
A. Gray +
bristlelike +
coroniform +
truncate +, cuneate +  and attenuate +
compound +  and simple +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (40 cm400 mm <br />0.4 m <br />) +
lobed;rhombic;ovate;rhombic;ovate;linear;deltate +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (26 cm260 mm <br />0.26 m <br />) +
winged;ribbed;winged;ribbed +
tuberculate +  and rugose +
barbellulate +  and barbellate +
sessile +  and petiolate +
subopposite +  and alternate +
White rosinweed +
1.2 cm12 mm <br />0.012 m <br /> (2.6 cm26 mm <br />0.026 m <br />) +
hairy +  and glabrous +
less orbiculate +  and obovate or cuneate +
0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br /> (1.2 cm12 mm <br />0.012 m <br />) +
fertile +  and bisexual +
fertile +  and bisexual +
100–500 m +
scabrous +  and hirsute +
pistillate +, staminate +  and neuter +
winged +  and beaked +
dispersed +
Prairies, open fields, calcareous soils +
in cymiform , corymbiform , paniculiform , racemiform or spiciform , arrays +  and singly +
indeterminate +
homogamous +  and heterogamous +
each +  and sessile +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br />) +
campanulate;hemispheric +
sessile +  and petiolate +
alternate +, subopposite +, opposite +  and whorled +
cauline +  and basal +
deltate +
dentate to pinnatifid or palmatifid +  and entire +
toothed +  and entire +
2-carpellate +
persistent +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
Flowering late spring–summer. +
23 +  and 36 +
unequal +  and subequal +
Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts +
bearing subulate enations +, hairy +  and bristly +
flat;slightly convex +
exalbuminous +
scabrous +, hispid +, hirsute +  and glabrous +
appendaged +  and truncate +
hirsutulous +  and glabrous +
papillate +
Undefined (tribe Undefined) subtribe Enceliinae +, Undefined (tribe Undefined) subtribe Engelmanniinae +, Undefined (tribe Undefined) subtribe Spilanthinae +, Undefined (tribe Undefined) subtribe Verbesininae +  and Undefined (tribe Undefined) subtribe Zinniinae +
Silphium albiflorum +
Silphium +
species +
cylindric +
cylindric +
shorter to longer than campanulate +
entire +  and toothed +
20 cm200 mm <br />0.2 m <br /> (250 cm2,500 mm <br />2.5 m <br />) +
200 cm2,000 mm <br />2 m <br /> (400 cm4,000 mm <br />4 m <br />) +