mucronate

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Involucral bracts mucronate, appressed Blazing Star, Liatris cylindracea. 99a.

From The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State by Gleason, Henry Allan

The fourth glume is thinly coriaceous, shining, striolate, broadly ovate, mucronate, compressed, faintly and thinly 5-nerved and palea with infolded margins.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.

Leaves � to � in. long, mostly cylindric, straight, rigid, mucronate, crowded, and of a beautiful glaucous-green color.

From Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by Apgar, A. C. (Austin Craig)

Creeping extensively, roughish, green; leaves oblanceolate or wedge-spatulate, serrate above; peduncles axillary, slender, exceeding the leaves, bearing solitary closely bracted heads of bluish-white flowers; bracts mucronate or pointless.—River-banks,

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Leaflets.—About eight; scattered; very variable; linear to lanceolate or oblong; acute; mucronate; strongly three- to five-nerved.

From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth