Brickellia microphylla

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Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Family Compositae

The largest family of flowering plants , the Compositae (Asteraceae), comprising about 1,100 genera and more than 20,000 species and characterized by many small flowers arranged in a head looking like a single flower and subtended by an involucre of bracts. A head may consist of both ray flowers and disk flowers, as in the sunflower, of disk flowers only, as in the burdock, or of ray flowers only, as in the dandelion.

Genus Brickellia

Annuals , perennials , subshrubs , or shrubs , (12-) 30-120(-200) cm. Stems mostly erect , often much branched (sometimes virgate , often striate ). Leaves cauline; opposite or alternate; petiolate or sessile; blades usually 3-nerved from bases , deltate, lance-elliptic, lance-linear , lanceolate, lance-ovate, lance-rhombic, linear , oblong , obovate , ovate , rhombic-ovate, spatulate , or suborbiculate, margins mostly crenate , dentate , entire, laciniate-dentate, lobed , serrate, or toothed , faces glabrous (sometimes shiny) or glandular-puberulent, strigose , or tomentose , sometimes gland-dotted. Heads usually in corymbiform , sometimes cymiform, paniculiform , or racemiform , arrays, rarely borne singly. Involucres cylindric to obconic or campanulate , 5-12 mm diam. Phyllaries persistent , (10-) 14-45(-60) in 3-7(-9) series, usually (4-) 5-6(-16) -striate or -nerved, linear or lanceolate to oblanceolate or oblong, usually unequal (usually chartaceous , sometimes herbaceous). Receptacles flat to convex , epaleate. Florets (3-) 8-45(-90) ; corollas usually white or whitish to cream, sometimes greenish, purplish or yellowish, throats mostly cylindric to narrowly funnelform (lengths 3-5 times diams.) ; styles: bases enlarged, hairy , branches narrowly clavate (± dilated distally). Cypselae narrowly prismatic , 10-ribbed, glabrous or hairy to glabrate , often gland-dotted; pappi persistent, of 10-80 usually smooth or barbellulate to barbellate , sometimes plumose or subplumose bristles in 1 series. x = 9.

Species ca. 100: North America, Mexico, Central America.[1]

Physical Description

Biology

Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Growth

Moisture: Drought Tolerance: High

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Bulbostylis microphylla Nuttall • Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc.

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Comment: Data Providers: CONABIO, Govaerts World Compositae Checklist A-G, IPNI, Tropicos. GCC LSID: urn :lsid:compositae.org:names:F1979936-3F34-4DD9-88D3-D5914F0FA4B6

Last scrutiny: 20-Aug-09

Similar Species

Members of the genus Brickellia

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 71 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

B. amplexicaulis (Ear-Leaf Brickellbush) · B. amplexicaulis B.L.Robins. var. amplexicaulis B.L.Robins. (Earleaf Brickellbush) · B. amplexicaulis B.L.Robins. var. lanceolata (Gray) B.L.Robins. (Earleaf Brickellbush) · B. amplexicaulis var. amplexicaulis (Earleaf Brickellbush) · B. amplexicaulis var. lanceolata (Earleaf Brickellbush) · B. arguta (Hollyleaf Brickellbush) · B. arguta var. arguta (Spearleaf Brickellia) · B. arguta var. odontolepis (Pungent Brickellbush) · B. atractyloides (Hollyleaf Brickellbush) · B. atractyloides Gray var. atractyloides Gray (Spearleaf Brickellia) · B. atractyloides var. atractyloides (Spearleaf Brickellia) · B. baccharidea (Baccharis-Leaf Brickellia) · B. betonicifolia (Betony-Leaf Brickell-Bush) · B. brachyphylla (Brach Brickellbush) · B. brachyphylla var. brachyphylla (Plumed Brickellbush) · B. brachyphylla var. hinckleyi (Hinckleys Brickellia) · B. brachyphylla var. terlinguensis (Terlingua Brickellia) · B. californica (California Brickell-Bush) · B. californica var. californica (California Brickellbush) · B. californica var. jepsonii (Jepson's Brickellbush) · B. chenopodina (Chenopod Brickell-Bush) · B. conduplicata (Southwest Brickell-Bush) · B. cordifolia (Flyr's Brickell-Bush) · B. coulteri (Coulter Brickellbush) · B. cylindracea (Gravel-Bar Brickell-Bush) · B. dentata (Leafy Brickell-Bush) · B. desertorum (Desert Brickellbush) · B. eupatorioides (False Boneset) · B. eupatorioides (L.) Shinners var. corymbulosa (Torr. & Gray) Shinners (False Boneset) · B. eupatorioides var. chlorolepis (False Boneset) · B. eupatorioides var. corymbulosa (False Boneset) · B. eupatorioides var. eupatorioides (False Boneset) · B. eupatorioides var. floridana (False Boneset) · B. eupatorioides var. gracilis (False Boneset) · B. eupatorioides var. gracillima (False Boneset) · B. eupatorioides var. texana (False Boneset) · B. floribunda (Chihuahuan Brickellbush) · B. frutescens (Rigid Brickellbush) · B. grandiflora (Mountain Brickellbush) · B. greenei (Greene Brickellbush) · B. hinckleyi var. terlinguensis (Terlingu Brickellia) · B. incana (White Brickellbush) · B. knappiana (Knapp Brickellbush) · B. laciniata (Cutleaf Brickel-Bush) · B. lemmonii (Lemmon Brickellbush) · B. lemmonii var. lemmonii (Lemmon's Brickellbush) · B. lemmonii var. wootonii (Lemmon's Brickellbush) · B. longifolia (Long Leaf Brickellbush) · B. longifolia var. longifolia (Longleaf Brickellbush) · B. longifolia var. multiflora (Longleaf Brickellbush) · B. longifolia var. multiflora (Kellogg) Cronq. (Gumleaf Brickellbush) · B. microphylla (Littleleaf Brickellbush) · B. microphylla scabra (Littleleaf Brickellbush) · B. microphylla var. microphylla (Littleleaf Brickellbush) · B. microphylla var. scabra (Rough Brickellbush) · B. microphylla var. watsonii (Watson's Brickellbush) · B. nelsonii (Nelson's Brickellbush) · B. nevinii (Nevin Brickellbush) · B. oblongifolia (Mohave Brickellbush) · B. oblongifolia linifolia (Narrow Leaf Brickellbush) · B. oblongifolia var. linifolia (Narrow Leaf Brickellbush) · B. oblongifolia var. oblongifolia (Narrowleaf Brickellbush) · B. parvula (Small Brickellbush) · B. pringlei (Pringle's Brickellbush) · B. rusbyi (Stinking Brickell-Bush) · B. simplex (Sonoran Brickell-Bush) · B. venosa (Veined Brickell-Bush) · B. veronicifolia (Veronica-Leaved Brickell-Bush) · B. veronicifolia var. petrophila (Veronicaleaf Brickellbush) · B. veronicifolia var. veronicifolia (Veronicaleaf Brickellbush) · B. viejensis (Tierra Vieja Brickellbush)

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Further Reading

• A flora of northwest America containing brief descriptions of all the known indigenous and naturalized plants growing without cultivation north of California, west of Utah, and south of British Columbia / Portland, Or.: [s.n.], 1900. url .
• Botany Cambridge, Mass., John Wilson and Son, 1880 url p. 300.
• Botany. Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1871. url .
• Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences. Los Angeles, Calif.: The Academy, 1902-1971. url .
• California fish and game. [San Francisco, etc.]: State of California, Resources Agency, Dept. of Fish and Game. url p. 250.
• Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 23 1920-1926 Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1890- url p. 1475.
• Great Basin naturalist memoirs. 1987 [Provo, Utah]Brigham Young University, 1976-1992. url p. 160.
• Manual of the botany (Phaenogamia and Pteridophyta) of the Rocky mountain region, from New Mexico to the British boundary. By John M. Coulter. and Chicago: Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor, and company, 1885. url p. 143.
• Native woody plants of the United States, their erosion-control and wildlife values. Washington, U. S. Govt. print. off., 1938. url , , p. 106, p. 75, p. 76, p. 77.
• New manual of botany of the central Rocky mountains (vascular plants) Cincinnati [etc.]American Book Company[c1909] url .
• Phytologia. Bronx Park, New York, H.A. Gleason and H.N. Moldenke, url p. 121, p. 187, p. 358, p. 397.
• Proceedings - California Academy of Sciences, 4th series. San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences. url p. 53.
• Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Boston: Metcalf and Co., 1846-1958 url p. 395, p. 395, p. 48, p. 69.
• Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th series. San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences. url p. 53.
• Report of the geological exploration of the fortieth parallel / Washington, D.C.: G.P.O., 1870-80 url .
• Rocky Mountain wild flower studies; an account of the ways of some plants that live in the Rocky Mountain region, by Burton O. Longyear. .. with illustrations from nature by the author. Denver, Merchants Publishing Co., c1909 url p. 143.
• Synoptical flora of North America: the Gamopetalae, a second edition of vol. I, pt. II, and vol. II, pt. I / collected by Asa Gray. Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1888. url p. 445.
• Text-book of western botany: consisting of Coulter's Manual of the botany of the Rocky mountains, to which is prefixed Gray's lessons in botany. For the use of schools and colleges between the Mississippi river and the Rocky moun Chicago: Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor, and Company, 1885. url p. 143.
• The Great Basin naturalist. 48 1988 Provo, Utah: M.L. Bean Life Science Museum, Brigham Young University, 1939-1999. url p. 108, p. 14, welsh, page 179, p. 229, p. 230, p. 283, p. 516, p. 520, p. 628, p. 82.
• The Plant world. Baltimore [etc.]Plant World Association [etc.] url p. 75.
• The University of Colorado studies. Boulder, University of Colorado. url p. 123.
• Trees and shrubs of Mexico / By Paul C. Standley. Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1920-1926. url p. 1475.
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• Watson, S. Botany /by Sereno Watson, aided by Daniel C. Eaton, and others. 5 1871 Washington, D.C.: G.P.O., 1871. url p. 138, p.
• Zoe:a biological journal. San Diego, Calif. [etc.]Zoe Publishing Co. url p. 118, p. 358, p. 358.
• Robinson, B. L. 1917. A monograph of the genus Brickellia. Mem. Gray Herb. 1: 3-151.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 19, 2007:

• Oregon State University, Vascular Plant Collection
• School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Arizona State University Vascular Plant Herbarium
• School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, The Deaver Herbarium, Northern Arizona University
• USDA PLANTS, USDA PLANTS Database
• University of Washington Burke Museum, Vascular Plant Collection - University of Washington Herbarium
• Utah State University, USU-UTC Specimen Database
• Utah Valley State College
• , Utah Valley State College Herbarium

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2658205
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Ast-7499
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13749247
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:36461-2
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 36886
• U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: BRMI
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 25938

Footnotes

1. Randall W. Scott "Brickellia". in Flora of North America Vol. 21 Page 460, 491, 507. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]

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