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annual agoseris

mountain agoseris

Habit Plants perennial, acaulescent; taprooted, with well-developed single or branched root crowns below ground.
Leaves

2–15(20) cm;

blades linear to elliptic or oblanceolate;

margins entire to irregularly dentate or lobed;

lobes mostly triangular to linear, often angled toward base;

tips obtuse to acute or acuminate;

surfaces glabrous to scabrous or villous;

petioles linear or narrowly winged.

Peduncles

1–15+; erect or ascending, 1–20(30) cm;

tips with yellow, glandular hairs, sometimes also white hairs.

Involucres

cylindrical to campanulate in flower, narrowly to broadly ovoid in fruit, 1–2 cm.

Florets

10–40, 15–35 mm; longer than involucres, yellow; outer reddish abaxially.

Phyllaries

inner 12–22, narrowly lanceolate; acute or acuminate; outer gradually shorter, lanceolate to triangular;

margins ciliate or not;

tips acute;

surfaces glabrous to ± villous and/or minutely glandular.

Fruits

6–10 mm;

bodies 6–8 mm, light brown or grayish; beakless or tapering into a short beaks;

beaks 1–3 mm; < bodies.

2n

=18, 36.

Agoseris heterophylla

Agoseris monticola

Distribution
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Discussion

Alpine ridges, slopes, meadows, coniferous woods, brushy flats. Flowering Jul–Sep. 1300–2900 m. BR, BW, Casc, ECas. CA, NV, WA. Native.

Agoseris monticola is typically a species of higher elevations, often occurring as dwarfed plants in ecologically extreme environments. Intergrades are found between it and A. glauca var. glauca and A. parviflora, occasionally forming populations in which some plants have glabrous involucres while others have the minute glandular hairs of A. monticola.

Source Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 170
Kenton Chambers
Sibling taxa
A. apargioides, A. aurantiaca, A. elata, A. glauca, A. glauca x Agoseris grandiflora, A. grandiflora, A. monticola, A. parviflora, A. retrorsa
A. apargioides, A. aurantiaca, A. elata, A. glauca, A. glauca x Agoseris grandiflora, A. grandiflora, A. heterophylla, A. parviflora, A. retrorsa
Subordinate taxa
A. heterophylla var. heterophylla
Synonyms Agoseris glauca var. aspera, Agoseris glauca var. monticola
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