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Botanical Name
Conyza bonariensis - (L.) Cronquist.
Family
Asteraceae
Common Name
Flax-leaf fleabane, Hoisweed
Habit
Herb
Synonym
Conyza ambigua DC.
Habitat
Open places
Color Of Flower
Yellow
Key Characters
Anther cells not tailed, all florets tubular.
Systematic Position
Division :
Dicotyledonae
 
Class :
Gamopetalae
 
Series :
Inferae
 
Order :
Asterales
Plant Description

Annual, erect, coarse, herb, about 30-150 cm high; branches decumbent, densely hirsute; leaves obovate or narrowly oblanceolate, cuneate at base, acute at apex , coarsely serrate at margins, pubescent on both surfaces; heads 4.5 mm in diameter in long leafy panicles; involucral bracts multiseriate, linear, densely pubescent; receptacle flat or convex, glabrous or hairy; ray florets 3-4 mm long, ligulate, disk florets 3 mm long, tubular, 5-lobed; anther base obtuse, entire; style arms flattened, tips long or short; achenes minute, subglobous; pappus 3-4 mm long, brown.

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