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Creeping Silverback

Luina serpentina Cronq.

Description

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Stems sprawling to erect. Leaves petiolate; blades lanceolate, 50–120 × 6–20 mm, abaxially lanate, adaxially loosely tomentose. Peduncles 15–35 mm. Phyllaries 10–14, linear, 9–10 mm. Florets 13–26; corollas yellow, 11–12 mm. Cypselae 5–6 mm, 12–15-nerved, glabrous; pappi of ca. 125 bristles 10–11 mm.
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
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Flora of North America Vol. 20: 628 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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