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lanceleaf goldenweed

Habit Plants 5–60 cm.
Stems

erect or decumbent-ascending, glabrous to lightly tomentose.

Basal leaves

broadly or narrowly lanceolate to oblong or elliptic, rarely linear, 3–30 cm × 3–25 mm;

surfaces glabrous or villous-tomentose;

margins entire to denticulate or sharply serrate-dentate.

Cauline leaves

reduced distally, usually sessile.

Involucres

4–11 mm.

Ray florets

10–45, conspicuous;

corollas 5–10 mm.

Disc florets

20–100;

corollas 5–10 mm.

Phyllaries

usually in 3–5 series, deltate to linear;

margins entire;

surfaces glabrous or villous.

Fruits

3.5–4.5 mm, brown, puberulent;

pappus bristles 5–7 mm.

Heads

5–20(30) in corymb- or panicle-like arrays, radiate;

peduncles 5–70 mm.

2n

=12, 24, 36.

Pyrrocoma crocea

Pyrrocoma lanceolata

Distribution
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Discussion

Conifer forests, shrublands, alkaline meadows, dry lake beds, sand dunes, disturbed areas. Flowering Jun–Aug. 700–2000 m. BR, BW, ECas, Owy. CA, ID, NV; northeast to Saskatchewan, east to WY, southeast to CO. Native.

Source Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 331
Kenton Chambers
Sibling taxa
P. carthamoides, P. hirta, P. howellii, P. lanceolata, P. racemosa, P. radiata, P. scaberula, P. uniflora
P. carthamoides, P. hirta, P. howellii, P. racemosa, P. radiata, P. scaberula, P. uniflora
Synonyms Haplopappus lanceolatus, Haplopappus lanceolatus ssp. lanceolatus, Haplopappus lanceolatus ssp. tenuicaulis, Pyrrocoma lanceolata var. lanceolata
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