View source for Pityopsis falcata

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|accepted_name=Pityopsis falcata
|accepted_authority=(Pursh) Nuttall
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., n. s.
|place=7: 318. 1840
|year=1840
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Inula falcata
|authority=Pursh
|rank=species
|publication_title=Fl. Amer. Sept.
|publication_place=2: 532. 1813
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Chrysopsis falcata
|authority=(Pursh) Elliott
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Heterotheca falcata
|authority=(Pursh) V. L. Harms
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Inula mariana var. ×falcata
|authority=(Pursh) Nuttall
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Astereae;Pityopsis;Pityopsis falcata
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Astereae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Pityopsis]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Pityopsis falcata]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=page 224
|treatment_page=page 223
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials,</b> (10–)20–30(–40) cm; rhizomes 0.5–5 cm. <b>Stems</b> erect, sometimes reddish brown, sometimes branched distally, striate, sparsely to densely long-sericeous. <b>Leaves</b>: basal usually withering by flowering, shorter than cauline; cauline spreading to ascending, sessile, blades linear, falcate, often conduplicate, apices acuminate; proximal 50–90 × 2–7 mm, glabrate to sparsely sericeous; distal somewhat smaller, glabrate except for margins. <b>Heads</b> (2–)4–10(–25) in corymbiform arrays. <b>Peduncles</b> sparsely bracteolate, 1–4 cm, white-villous. <b>Involucres</b> turbino-campanulate, 5–8 mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> in 5–6 series, apices with tufts of hairs, faces sparsely strigose. <b>Ray</b> florets 9–15; corolla laminae 5–8 mm. <b>Disc</b> florets 30–60; corollas 4.5–6 mm, sparsely pilose near base of limbs, lobes 0.5 mm, sparsely pilose. <b>Cypselae</b> fusiform, 3–4 mm, ribbed, faces strigose; pappi: outer of linear setiform scales 0.5–1 mm, inner of 30–40 bristles 4–6 mm. <b>2n</b> = 18.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer–fall.
|habitat=Open areas on sandy glacial deposits, often in pine barrens (Pinus rigida)
|elevation=10–100 m
|distribution=Conn.;Fla.;Mass.;N.J.;N.Y.;R.I.
|discussion=<p><i>Pityopsis falcata</i> grows on deposits left along the front of the Wisconsin Glaciation. It can be locally abundant in open sandy soils. It was collected once along railroad tracks west of Toronto, Ontario, and also along a beach in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1955.</p>
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name=Pityopsis falcata
|authority=(Pursh) Nuttall
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Chrysopsis falcata;Heterotheca falcata;Inula mariana var. ×falcata
|basionyms=Inula falcata
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering summer–fall.
|habitat=Open areas on sandy glacial deposits, often in pine barrens (Pinus rigida)
|elevation=10–100 m
|distribution=Conn.;Fla.;Mass.;N.J.;N.Y.;R.I.
|reference=None
|publication title=Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., n. s.
|publication year=1840
|special status=Endemic
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V19-20-21/V20_493.xml
|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Astereae
|genus=Pityopsis
|species=Pityopsis falcata
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