Taxon	Illustrator ⠉
	Conoclinium dissectum Tamaulipa azurea Ageratum corymbosum	Linny Heagy Linny Heagy Linny Heagy

Shrubs, (100–) 200–300 cm (sometimes subscandent, climbing and sprawling over other plants). Stems erect or clambering, intricately branched (often brittle, glabrous or nearly so, not viscid). Leaves cauline; opposite; petiolate; blades usually 3-nerved from bases, deltate, margins toothed, faces puberulent to velutinous (not glanddotted). Heads discoid, in corymbiform arrays. Involucres obconic to hemispheric, 5–7 mm diam. Phyllaries persistent, 30–35 in 2–3+ series, obscurely nerved, lanceolate to subulate, unequal (herbaceous to chartaceous or membranous). Receptacles convex to conic, epaleate. Florets 30–50+; corollas usually blue to lavender, sometimes white, throats narrowly funnelform (lengths 1.5–2 times diams.); styles: bases not enlarged, glabrous, branches linear-filiform. Cypselae prismatic, 5–6-ribbed, sparsely scabrellous; pappi persistent, of ca. 35 barbellate bristles in 1 series. x = 10.

Distribution

Tex., ne Mexico

Discussion

Species 1.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

Tamaulipa azurea

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