Chrysogonum virginianum in Flora of North America @ efloras.org

1. Chrysogonum virginianum Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 2: 920. 1753.

Green and gold

Leaf blades 2.5–10 cm, faces minutely strigoso-hirsutulous to villoso-hirsute and stipitate-glandular (hairs ca. 0.1 mm). Peduncles 2–22 cm. Paleae ca. 4 mm. Ray corollas 6–17 mm, laminae broadly elliptic, apices 3-toothed. Disc corollas 2.5–2.7 mm. Cypselae 3–4.5 × 2–2.5 mm.

Varieties 3 (3 in the flora): e United States.

1 Plants not stoloniferous; earliest flowering stems leafless, later ones leafy and mostly 15–35(–50) cm 1a Chrysogonum virginianum var. virginianum

+ Plants stoloniferous (colonial, mat-forming); flowering stems leafless and/or leafy, leafy stems (2–)15–25 cm (2)

2 (1) Longest stolon internodes 2–6 cm; earliest flowering stems leafless, mostly 2–25 cm (later flowering stems leafy, 15–25 cm) 1b Chrysogonum virginianum var. brevistolon

+ Longest stolon internodes 12–60 cm; earliest (and all other) flowering stems leafless, 2–10 cm 1c Chrysogonum virginianum var. australe

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