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Plant Characteristics
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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Sclerocarpus in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Sclerocarpus (Greek, hard and fruit, the achenes are inclosed in a hardened palea). Syn., Gymnopsis, in part. Compositae. Annual or perennial strigose-pubescent herbs, suitable for outdoor planting in the S.: sts. branching: lvs. alternate or the lower rarely all opposite, dentate or subentire: heads small or medium, at the ends of the branches, pedunculate, many-fld.: fls. yellow; the ray-fls. few to several, fertile; pappus wanting: achenes more or less 4-sided with a broad flat summit.—About 15 species. N. Amer., region of Texas and Mex., Trop. Afr., and Trop. Asia. S. uniserialis, Benth. & Hook. f. (Gymnopsis uniserialis, Hook. Gymnolomia uniserialis, Hort.). Annual, 1-2 ft. high, loosely branched: lvs. alternate, slender-petioled, deltoid- or rhombic-ovate, or the uppermost lanceolate, coarsely dentate, the strigose pubescence of the lower surface canescent: corollas orange. Texas and Mex. RH. 1853:261. G.C. III. 28:165. ^CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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