RAYED PALAFOXIA
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Palafoxia sphacelata (Nutt. ex Torr.) Cory
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| Kearney County, Kansas (photo by Marion McGlohon) |
| Annual |
| Height: 4-36 inches |
| Family: Asteraceae - Sunflower Family |
| Flowering Period: July, August, September |
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| Stems: | | Erect, branched distally, hispid below, stipitate-glandular above. | | Leaves: | | Cauline, opposite proximally, alternate distally; blades lanceolate, 1.2 to 3.6 inches long, .12 to .8 inch wide; margins entire, surfaces scabrous to strigose or puberulent. | | Inflorescences: | | Heads in corymb-like arrays; involucres turbinate; phyllaries 8-14 in 2-3 series, distinct, oblanceolate to linear, .35 to .5 inch long. | | Flowers: | | Ray florets 3-5; corolla pink to pale purple, .6 to 1 inch, ligule .2 to .5 inch. Disk florets 15-35; corolla pink to pale purple, .4 to .6 inch, funnelform, lobes 5. | | Fruits: | | Achenes, obpyramidal, .24 to .35 inch, 4-angled, puberulent; pappus scales 4-10, .28 to .35 inch. | | Habitat: | | Sand and sandsage prairies, sandy mixed-grass prairies, sand dunes, flood plains, dry river and stream beds. | | Distribution: | | West 1/3 of Kansas | | Origin: | | Native | | Comments: | | Palafoxia, for Spanish general Jose de Palafox. |
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| Rayed palafoxia habit |  | | 160 KB | | Kearney County, Kansas (photo by Marion McGlohon) |
| | Rayed palafoxia |  | | 78 KB | | Kearney County, Kansas (photo by Marion McGlohon) |
| | Rayed palafoxia |  | | 103 KB | | Kearney County, Kansas (photo by Marion McGlohon) |
| | Rayed palafoxia flowers |  | | 114 KB | | (photo by Craig Freeman) |
| | Rayed palafoxia |  | | 179 KB | | (photo by Craig Freeman) |
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