Texas Snakecotton

Froelichia interrupta (L.) Moq. in DC. Prodr. 13 2 : 42L 1849
Gompkrena interrupta I,. Sp. PI. 224. 1753.
Celosia procumbens Jacq. Misc. Austr. 344. 1778.
Gomphrena spicata Lam. Encyc. 1: 120. 1783.
Froelichia lanata Moench, Meth. 50. 1794.
Oplotheca interrupta Nutt. Gen. 2: 79. 1818.
Oplotheca tomentosa Mart. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2: 48. 1826.
Ninanga interrupta Raf. FL Tell. 3: 77. 1837.
Everion interrupta Raf. Sylva Tell. 124. 1838.
Froelichia Jioridana Moq. in DC. Prodr. 13 2 : 420, in part. 1849.
Froelichia tomentosa Moq. in DC. Prodr. 13 2 : 421. 1849.
Froelichia alata S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 21: 437. 1886.
Froelichia texana Coult. & Fisher, Bot. Gaz. 17: 350. 1892.
Froelichia interrupta cor data Uline & Bray, Bot. Gaz. 20: 340. 1895.
Perennial from a woody root, branched at the base; stems ascending or decumbent, 3-10 dm. long, simple or sometimes branched, rather slender, thinly white-tomentose or sericeous, slightly viscid above; leaves petiolate, the petioles of the lower leaves sometimes as long as the blades, those of the upper leaves shorter, the blades oval to ovate-orbicular, rarely oblong or elliptic, 2.5-10 cm. long, 0.8-3.8 cm. wide, obtuse or acutish or rarely acute at the apex, rounded or obtuse at the base or sometimes acute, scaberulous or canescent on the upper surface, sericeous or floccose-tomentose beneath with whitish or grayish hairs; inflorescence lax; bracts acute or acuminate, stramineous or brown; bractlets stramineous or fuscous; calyx-lobes lance-oblong, obtuse; calyx deltoid in outline, nearly as broad as long, broadly winged laterally, the thin wings entire or crenulate, the sides of the calyxtube not appendaged ; seed brown, 1.5
mm. long.
Type locality: America. t /%*.**■
Distribution: Western Texas to Mexico; Cuba, Jamaica, and Hispamola; also from Colombia