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large-flowered goldenweed

tacky goldenweed

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.

Pyrrocoma carthamoides

Pyrrocoma hirta

Distribution
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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
Sibling taxa
P. hirta, P. howellii, P. lanceolata, P. racemosa, P. radiata, P. scaberula, P. uniflora
P. carthamoides, P. howellii, P. lanceolata, P. racemosa, P. radiata, P. scaberula, P. uniflora
Subordinate taxa
P. carthamoides var. carthamoides, P. carthamoides var. cusickii
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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