Pyrrocoma crocea |
Pyrrocoma lanceolata |
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lanceleaf goldenweed |
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Habit | Plants 5–60 cm. | |
Stems | erect or decumbent-ascending, glabrous to lightly tomentose. |
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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. |
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Cauline leaves | reduced distally, usually sessile. |
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Involucres | 4–11 mm. |
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Ray florets | 10–45, conspicuous; corollas 5–10 mm. |
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Disc florets | 20–100; corollas 5–10 mm. |
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Phyllaries | usually in 3–5 series, deltate to linear; margins entire; surfaces glabrous or villous. |
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Fruits | 3.5–4.5 mm, brown, puberulent; pappus bristles 5–7 mm. |
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Heads | 5–20(30) in corymb- or panicle-like arrays, radiate; peduncles 5–70 mm. |
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2n | =12, 24, 36. |
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Pyrrocoma crocea |
Pyrrocoma lanceolata |
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Distribution | ||
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. |
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Source | Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 331 Kenton Chambers |
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Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Haplopappus lanceolatus, Haplopappus lanceolatus ssp. lanceolatus, Haplopappus lanceolatus ssp. tenuicaulis, Pyrrocoma lanceolata var. lanceolata | |
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