Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Bahia bigelovii A. Gray, in Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 96. 1859
Schkuhria Bigelovii A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 9: 199. 1874.
A branched annual; stem 2-4 dm. high, hirsutulous; leaves short-petioled, opposite, once or twice ternately dissected into linear-filiform divisions, sparingly hirsutulous and distinctly glandularpunctate, 3-5 cm. long; involucre nearly hemispheric, 5-6 mm. high, 8-9 mm. broad, hirsute and glandular-punctate; bracts 8-9, obovate or the outer oblong, abruptly short-acuminate; ligules 5-8, yellow, oblong or elliptic, 5 mm. long; disk-flowers 20-30; corollas 2 mm. long, the glandular tube shorter than the deeply campanulate throat; achenes 3 mm. long, narrowly obpyramidal, hispidulous on the edges; squamellae 8, obovate, 0.5 mm. long, thickened near the base.
Type locality: Valley of the Limpio, Texas. Distribution: Western Texas.
- bibliographic citation
- Per Axel Rydberg. 1914. (CARDUALES); CARDUACEAE; HELENIEAE. North American flora. vol 34(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
