Contact Us
Log in
Sandbox Portal
Use for testing only
Home
Search Collections
Map Search
Checklists
Image Search
Data Use
About Symbiota
Sitemap
Help
Acourtia thurberi
(A. Gray) Reveal & King
Family:
Asteraceae
Thurber's desertpeony,
more...
Thurber perezia (es: mata gusano, cola de zorra, pipichowa)
[
Acourtia mexicana
(Lag. ex D. Don) H. Rob.,
more
Perezia thurberi
A. Gray
]
Frank Rose
Flora of North America
Resources
Beryl B. Simpson in Flora of North America (vol. 19, 20 and 21)
Plants
40-150 cm (stems sulcate to striate distally, densely glan-dular).
Leaves
cauline and/or basal; sessile; blades ovate to ovate-elliptic, 1.5 (cauline)-18 (basal) cm, bases shortly sagittate or clasping, margins acerose-denticulate, faces densely glandular-puberulent.
Heads
in subcongested corymbiform arrays.
Involucres
obconic to campanulate, 7-9 mm.
Phyllaries
in 2-3 series, oblong-oblanceolate, apices acuminate, abaxial faces densely glandular-hairy.
Receptacles
alveolate, glandular.
Florets
3-6; corollas lavender-pink (purple), 7-12 mm.
Cypselae
subcylindric to subfusiform, 3-7 mm, glandular;
pappi
bright white, 8-9 mm (rigid).
2
n
= 54. Flowering Oct-Nov. Gravel and caliche soils in warm Sonoran desert scrub; 100-200 m; Ariz.; N.Mex.; Mexico (Chihuahua, Durango, Sonora).
Open Interactive Map
Ries Lindley
Ries Lindley
Ries Lindley
Ries Lindley
Minter, S.L.
Thomas Van Devender
Minter, S.L.
Thomas Van Devender
Click to Display
19 Total Images