Description
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Erect perennial 30-60 cm tall, aromatic (smell of turpentine), branched herbs. Stem usually not winged. Leaves ovate to obovate, 2-12 x 1-5 (-6) cm, lyrately or pinnately lobed, with a cuneate or narrow base or sometimes lobed to the base; lobes decurrent, 6-8 x 4-5 mm. Capitula 7-9 mm in diameter; phyllaries 3-6 (-7) mm, outer lanceoalate, inner linear, glandular. Florets purple, 4-6 mm long. Cypselas dark red-brown, c. 1 mm obscurely ribbed, sparsely hairy, pappus white, 4-4.5 mm long.
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- Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
Distribution
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Distribution: Same as that of genus.
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Habitat
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Grows as a weed and also in disturbed habitat.
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Derivation of specific name
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viscosa: viscid, sticky
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- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- bibliographic citation
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Pseudoconyza viscosa (Mill.) D'Arcy Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=159150
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- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings