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Oregon sunshine, woolly sunflower

western woolly sunflower

Habit Herbs perennial, 1–6 dm.
Stems

not woody.

Leaves

opposite;

proximal often alternate, 1–8 cm;

surfaces woolly-pubescent, or adaxially glabrate and green, sessile or petiolate.

upper mostly opposite;

margins revolute.

Involucres

3–11 mm.

7–11 mm in diameter.

Ray florets

(0)5–15;

corollas 5–20 mm, yellow.

8–13;

rays 8–20 mm.

Disc florets

20–200.

Phyllaries

in 2–3 equal series; lance-linear, woolly tomentose.

Fruits

2–5 mm, brown, pappi of 6–12 erose or lacerate scales, 0.3–2 mm.

2–3(4) mm.

Heads

solitary or few in open panicle-like arrays;

peduncles 3–30 cm, woolly-tomentose.

2n

=16, 32.

Eriophyllum lanatum

Eriophyllum lanatum var. leucophyllum

Distribution
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Discussion

10 varieties; 6 varieties treated in Flora.

Coniferous forest, shrublands, grasslands, rocky cliffs, talus, roadsides, edges of cultivated fields. Flowering May–Aug. 0–1600 m. Casc, CR, ECas, Est, Sisk, WV. WA; north to British Columbia. Native.

Plants of this variety were earlier referred to variety lanatum.

Source Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 263
Kenton Chambers
Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 264
Kenton Chambers
Sibling taxa
E. staechadifolium
E. lanatum var. achilleoides, E. lanatum var. grandiflorum, E. lanatum var. integrifolium, E. lanatum var. lanatum, E. lanatum var. lanceolatum
Subordinate taxa
E. lanatum var. achilleoides, E. lanatum var. grandiflorum, E. lanatum var. integrifolium, E. lanatum var. lanatum, E. lanatum var. lanceolatum, E. lanatum var. leucophyllum
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