Pyrrocoma carthamoides |
Pyrrocoma hirta |
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large-flowered goldenweed |
tacky goldenweed |
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Habit | Plants 3–80 cm. | Plants 10–60 cm. |
Stems | erect or decumbent-ascending, hispidulous or puberulent, rarely glabrous. |
erect or ascending, usually tomentose, lightly to densely stipitate glandular. |
Basal leaves | oblanceolate to broadly or narrowly elliptic, 5–20 cm × 5–35 mm; margins entire or denticulate; surfaces glabrous or puberulent. |
lanceolate to oblong or elliptic, 3–20 cm × 5–35 mm; margins denticulate to sharply serrate-dentate; surfaces villous to tomentose, stipitate-glandular, sometimes ciliate. |
Cauline leaves | sessile or petiolate. |
bases broadly attenuate to truncate, sessile. |
Involucres | 13–25 mm. |
7–13 mm. |
Ray florets | 0–30, inconspicuous, rarely exceeding the involucres. |
10–30, conspicuous; corollas 6–12 mm. |
Disc florets | 25–50; corollas 9–14 mm. |
30–60; corollas 5–7 mm. |
Phyllaries | in 3–5 series; ovate to narrowly lanceolate; margins sometimes sharply muricate; surfaces glabrous or puberulent. |
in 3–5 series, narrowly lanceolate to linear; margins entire; surfaces tomentose to scabrous and gland-dotted. |
Fruits | 3–5.5 mm, brown, glabrous; pappus bristles 6–9 mm. |
3–4.5 mm, brown, puberulent; pappus bristles 5–7 mm. |
Heads | solitary or 1–3 in raceme-like arrays, discoid or radiate, subtended by leafy bracts; peduncles 1–50 mm. |
3–7 in raceme-like arrays, radiate; peduncles 5–50 mm. |
2n | =12, 24. |
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Pyrrocoma carthamoides |
Pyrrocoma hirta |
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Distribution | ||
Discussion | Western Canada and United States. 3 varieties; 2 varieties treated in Flora. |
Conifer forests, shrublands, grasslands, roadsides. Flowering Jun–Aug. 400–1900 m. BR, BW, ECas. CA, ID, WA; southeast to UT. Native. |
Source | Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 330 Kenton Chambers |
Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 330 Kenton Chambers |
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Synonyms | Haplopappus carthamoides | Haplopappus hirtus, Haplopappus hirtus ssp. hirtus, Haplopappus hirtus ssp. lanulosus, Haplopappus hirtus ssp. sonchifolius, Haplopappus hirtus var. hirtus, Haplopappus hirtus var. lanulosus, Haplopappus hirtus var. sonchifolius, Haplopappus subviscosus, Pyrrocoma hirta var. hirta, Pyrrocoma hirta var. lanulosa, Pyrrocoma hirta var. sonchifolia, Pyrrocoma lanceolata var. subviscosa |
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