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clustered goldenweed

Habit Plants 20–80 cm.
Stems

erect or ascending, glabrous or lightly tomentose.

Basal leaves

broadly to narrowly lanceolate, oblong, or elliptic, 7–25 cm × 5–35 mm;

margins entire or denticulate;

surfaces glabrous.

Cauline leaves

reduced upwards, sessile or petiolate.

Involucres

5–15 mm.

Ray florets

7–35, conspicuous;

corollas 5–12 mm.

Disc florets

20–60;

corollas 5–8 mm.

Phyllaries

in 3–6 series;

margins entire, deltate to linear;

surfaces glabrous or lightly tomentose.

Fruits

2–5 mm, brown, puberulent;

pappus bristles 6–8 mm.

Heads

3–15 in raceme-like arrays, radiate;

peduncles 0–25 mm.

Pyrrocoma crocea

Pyrrocoma racemosa

Distribution
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Discussion

The three varieties of Pyrrocoma racemosa in Oregon are geo­graphically separate but can be difficult to tell apart morphologically due to intergradation of various key morphological characteristics.

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. lanceolata, P. radiata, P. scaberula, P. uniflora
Subordinate taxa
P. racemosa var. congesta, P. racemosa var. paniculata, P. racemosa var. racemosa
Synonyms Haplopappus racemosus
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