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Erigeron canadensis L.

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Conyza canadensis is thought to be native to North America and is now widely adventive, e.g., in South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Plants with stems glabrous and phyllaries red-tipped are sometimes treated as var. pusilla; similar plants with stems glabrous and phyllaries stramineous (not red-tipped) are sometimes treated as var. glabrata.
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Flora of North America Vol. 20: 347,349, 350 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Description

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Plants erect, (3–)50–200(–350+) cm, branched mostly distally. Leaves: faces usually glabrate (proximal margins ± ciliolate, hairs usually stiff, spreading and hispid on nerves, hairs erect); proximal blades oblanceolate to linear, 20–50(–100+) × 4–10(–15+) mm, toothed to entire; distal similar, smaller, entire. Heads usually in paniculiform, sometimes corymbiform arrays. Involucres 3–4 mm. Phyllaries usually glabrous, sometimes sparsely strigose (margins chartaceous to scarious); outer greenish to stramineous, lanceolate to linear, shorter; inner stramineous to reddish, lance-attenuate to linear. Receptacles 1–1.5(–3) mm diam. in fruit. Pistillate florets 20–30(–45+); corollas ± equaling or surpassing styles, laminae 0.3–1 mm. Disc florets 8–30+. Cypselae uniformly pale tan to light gray-brown, 1–1.5 mm, faces sparsely strigillose; pappi of 15–25, white bristles 2–3 mm. 2n = 18.
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Flora of North America Vol. 20: 347,349, 350 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Distribution

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A cosmopolitan weed of N. American origin.
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Annotated Checklist of the Flowering Plants of Nepal Vol. 0 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Elevation Range

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450-2500 m
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Synonym

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Erigeron canadensis Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 2: 863. 1753 (as canadense); Conyza canadensis var. glabrata (A. Gray) Cronquist; C. canadensis var. pusilla (Nuttall) Cronquist; C. parva Cronquist; E. canadensis var. pusillus (Nuttall) B. Boivin
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Flora of North America Vol. 20: 347,349, 350 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Conyza canadensis ( Asturian )

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El erígero del Canadá o yerba carnicero, sinónimu: Erigerum canadensis, ye una especie botánica de planta con flor, yerbácea de la familia Asteraceae, nativa de Norteamérica, anque güei estendióse polos cinco continentes.

Descripción

Ye una planta yerbácea añal que mide 3-18 dm d'altor. El so tarmu ye fráxil de color verde, acanaláu y erecto bien ramificáu, con fueyes llanceolaes y agudes. Les inflorescencies arrexuntaes en recímanos de capítulos florales numberosos y hemisféricos, formando una panícula compacta y allargada.

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Taxonomía

Conyza canadensis describióse por (L.) Cronquist y espublizóse en Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 70(6): 632. 1943.[1]

Etimoloxía

Conyza: nome xenéricu que remanez del griegu konops = "pulga", o konis = "polvu", refiriéndose al polvu de la planta seca que s'utiliza pa repeler inseutos ensin deseyar.

canadensis: epítetu xeográficu qu'alude al so localización en Canadá.[2]

Sinonimia
  • Aster canadensis (L.) Y.H.L.Krause
  • Caenotus canadensis (L.) Raf.
  • Caenotus pusillus (Nutt.) Raf.
  • Conyza canadensis var. glabrata (A.Gray) Cronquist
  • Conyzella canadensis (L.) Rupr.
  • Erigeron canadense var. pusillus (Nutt.) B.Boivin
  • Erigeron canadensis L.
  • Erigeron canadensis f. coloratus Fassett
  • Erigeron canadensis var. glabratus A.Gray
  • Erigeron canadensis var. grandiflorus Schwein.
  • Erigeron canadensis var. levis Makino
  • Erigeron canadensis var. strictus Farw.
  • Erigeron myriocephalus Rech.f. & Edelb.
  • Erigeron setiferus Post ex Boiss.
  • Erigeron strictus DC.
  • Leptilon canadense (L.) Britton & A.Br.
  • Leptilon pusillum (Nutt.) Britton
  • Marsea canadensis (L.) V.M.Badillo
  • Senecio ciliatus Walter
  • Trimorpha canadensis (L.) Lindm.[3]
  • Erigeron pusillus Nutt. [1818]
  • Tessenia canadensis (L.) Bubani [1899]
  • Inula canadensis (L.) Bernh. [1800]
  • Erigeron ruderalis Salisb. [1796]
  • Erigeron paniculatus Lam. [1779][4]

Nome común

Coniza, crisantelmo, crisantemu, erígero, erigeron, erígeron, erigerón, erigeron del Canadá, yerba de caballu, fusos, lliriu compuestu, zarramaga.

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Conyza canadensis: Brief Summary ( Asturian )

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Conyza canadensis

El erígero del Canadá o yerba carnicero, sinónimu: Erigerum canadensis, ye una especie botánica de planta con flor, yerbácea de la familia Asteraceae, nativa de Norteamérica, anque güei estendióse polos cinco continentes.

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