Interesting Facts
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 Conoclinium
Perennials
, 50-200 cm (usually rhizomatous
, colonial
, rhizomes relatively slender). Stems erect
to decumbent
(sometimes rooting
at proximal
nodes), not much branched distal to bases
. Leaves cauline; opposite; petiolate
; blades
usually 3-nerved from bases, deltate, oblanceolate
, ovate
, ovate-deltate, oblong
, or triangular, margins
dentate
or lobed
(to dissected
in C.
dissectum), faces
glabrate
to puberulous
, villosulous
, or hispidulous
, gland-dotted. Heads discoid
, in tight, corymbiform
arrays. Involucres hemispheric
, 3-6 mm diam. Phyllaries persistent
, ca.
25 in 2-3 series, obscurely 2-3-nerved, lanceolate to linear
, ± equal (herbaceous). Receptacles conic, epaleate. Florets 35-70+; corollas usually blue to purple or violet, rarely white, throats
narrowly funnelform
(lengths
ca. 4 times diams.) ; styles: bases not enlarged, glabrous
, branches filiform
to linear-clavate. Cypselae prismatic
(bases narrowed), 5-ribbed, glabrous or sparsely gland-dotted and/or hispidulous; pappi persistent, of ca. 30 barbellate
bristles
in 1 series. x = 10.
Species 4: sw, e North America, Mexico.[1]
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- Class:
Spermatopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Subclass:
Asteridae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Campanulanae
()
- Takhtajan Ex Reveal, 1992
- Order:
Asterales
()
- Lindley, 1833
- Family:
Compositae
()
- Giseke, 1792, nom. cons., nom. alt.
- Genus:
Conoclinium
()
- A.P. de Candolle, 1836
- [Greek konos, cone, and kline, bed, alluding to conic receptacles]
- Specific epithet:
scandens
- Botanical name: - Conoclinium scandens
- Specific epithet:
scandens
- Genus:
Conoclinium
(
- Family:
Compositae
(
- Order:
Asterales
(
- Superorder:
Campanulanae
(
- Subclass:
Asteridae
(
- Class:
Spermatopsida
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Similar Species
Members of the genus Conoclinium
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 6 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
C. betonicifolium (Betony-Leaf Thorough-Wort) · C. coelestinum (Ageratum) · C. coelestinum 'Album' (Hardy Ageratum) · C. coelestinum 'Cori' (Blue Mistflower) · C. coelestinum 'Wayside' (Blue Mistflower) · C. greggii (Palm-Leaf Thorough-Wort)
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Further Reading
- Patterson, T. F. 1994. A Taxonomic Revision of Conoclinium DC. (Asteraceae, Eupatorieae). M.S. thesis. University of Texas.
Notes
Contributors
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3443747
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 4123880
Footnotes
- Thomas F. Patterson, Guy L. Nesom "Conoclinium". in Flora of North America Vol. 21 Page 461, 462, 478, 481. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
