Bigelowia nuttallii

L. C. Anderson

Sida 3: 460. 1970.

Common names: Nuttall’s rayless-goldenrod
IllustratedEndemic
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 20. Treatment on page 96.

Plants with rhizomelike caudex branches (becoming colonial or loosely matted). Leaves linear, (3–) 6–14 × 1–2 mm, bases persistent (± sheathing branches of caudices). Involucres 5–8 mm. 2n = 18, 36, 54.


Phenology: Flowering Sep–Oct(–Nov).
Habitat: Sandstone and siltstone substrates, often over outcrops, also commonly in sand and sandy-loam, rarely over gneiss, dry habitats to wet savannas or seepage slopes
Elevation: 100–300 m

Distribution

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Ala., Fla., Ga., La., Miss., N.C., S.C., Tex.

Discussion

The geographic distribution of Bigelowia nuttallii is discontinuous, skipping from its area of greatest abundance in Texas and central Louisiana to scattered sites in northeastern Alabama, Georgia, and Florida (where partially sympatric with B. nudata var. nudata). Polyploids are known in populations in Georgia and Florida and are morphologically indistinguishable from the diploids.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

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... more about "Bigelowia nuttallii"
54 +, 36 +  and 18 +
not tailed +, rounded +  and obtuse +
distinct +
subequal +
scarious +
usually triangular +  and linear +
usually deltate +  and lanceolate +
corymbiform +, compact +  and open +
indeterminate +  and determinate +
flat-topped +
Guy L. Nesom +
L. C. Anderson +
persistent +
decurrent +
compound +  and simple +
linear;oblanceolate or spatulate +
4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br /> (14 cm140 mm <br />0.14 m <br />) +
rugulose +  and muricate +
Nuttall’s rayless-goldenrod +
not 2-lipped +  and actinomorphic +
beaked +, 2-ribbed +  and 5-ribbed +
sometimes slightly compressed +  and nearly quadrate +
fertile +  and bisexual +
fertile +  and bisexual +
Ala. +, Fla. +, Ga. +, La. +, Miss. +, N.C. +, S.C. +  and Tex. +
100–300 m +
gland-dotted +
pistillate +, staminate +  and neuter +
winged +  and beaked +
dispersed +
Sandstone and siltstone substrates, often over outcrops, also commonly in sand and sandy-loam, rarely over gneiss, dry habitats to wet savannas or seepage slopes +
indeterminate +
heterogamous +  and homogamous +
each +  and sessile +
cylindro-turbinate;cylindric +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br />) +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br />) +
0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br /> (1.4 cm14 mm <br />0.014 m <br />) +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br />) +
lanceolate +
2-carpellate +
persistent +
Flowering Sep–Oct(–Nov). +
narrowly lanceolate +  and nearly linear +
styliferous +, neuter +  and pistillate +
bearing subulate enations +, hairy +  and bristly +
concave;usually flat;conic +
exalbuminous +
Illustrated +  and Endemic +
appendaged +  and truncate +
papillate +  and smooth +
Chondrophora +
Bigelowia nuttallii +
Bigelowia +
species +
subequal +
perennial +, biennial +  and annual +