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Within the flora area, Cosmos parviflorus is native only in the southwestern United States.
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Description
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Plants 30–90 cm, glabrous or sparsely pubescent. Leaves: petioles ca. 0.5 cm; blades 2.5–6.5 cm, ultimate lobes to 1 mm wide, margins usually spinulose-ciliate, apices acute to obtuse. Peduncles 10–30 cm. Calyculi of spreading to reflexed, linear-oblong to narrowly lanceolate bractlets 6–9 mm, apices acute. Involucres (3–)5–10(–15) mm diam. Phyllaries erect, oblong, 5–8 mm, apices acute. Ray corollas white to rose-pink or violet, laminae cuneate-obovate, 5–9 mm, apices dentate. Disc corollas 4–5 mm. Cypselae 9–16 mm, setulose; pappi of 2–4 erect awns 2–3 mm. 2n = 24.
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Synonym
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Coreopsis parviflora Jacquin, Pl. Hort. Schoenbr. 3: 65, plate 374. 1798
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