. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. garet. Ewe-or may-gowan. or bruise-wort. Bone-flower. Bennert. March daisy. Bairn-wort. April-Nov. 27. TOWNSENDIA Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 16. 1834. Tufted scapose or branching herbs, with alternate, entire, linear or spatulate leaves, andlarge heads of .both tubular and radiate flowers. Involucre hemispheric or broadly campanu-lat
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. garet. Ewe-or may-gowan. or bruise-wort. Bone-flower. Bennert. March daisy. Bairn-wort. April-Nov. 27. TOWNSENDIA Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 16. 1834. Tufted scapose or branching herbs, with alternate, entire, linear or spatulate leaves, andlarge heads of .both tubular and radiate flowers. Involucre hemispheric or broadly campanu-late; bracts imbricated in several series, the outer shorter. Receptacle nearly flat, naked orfimbrillate. Ray-flowers pink or white, pistillate. Disk-flowers tubular, mostly perfect, theircorollas regular, 5-lobed. Anthers obtuse and entire at the base. Style-branches flattened,their appendages lanceolate. Achenes of the disk-flowers compressed, those of the rays com-monly 3-angled. Pappus a single series of rigid bristles or short scales. [Named for DavidTownsend, botanist, of Philadelphia.] About 25 species, natives of western North America. Type species : Townsendia sericea Hook. 1. T. grandiflora. 2. T. Branching from the base ; heads terminal. Acaulescent, or nearly so ; heads sessile among the leaves.
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