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gray horsebrush, spineless horsebrush

Habit Plants 1–8 dm; not rhizomatous.
Stems

unarmed, densely tomentose with glabrate or floccose stripes.

Involucres

turbinate to cylindric, 6–10 mm.

Florets

4(5);

corollas 5–15 mm, yellow, rarely cream.

Phyllaries

4(5), lanceolate to oblong;

surfaces tomentose.

Fruits

3–5 mm, glabrous to hirsute, pappi of 100–150 bristles, 6–10 mm.

Heads

3–8.

Primary leaves

lanceolate to oblanceolate, 7–40 mm;

surfaces tomentose to sericeous.

Secondary leaves

similar to primary, 2–20 mm.

2n

=60, 62, 90, 120.

Tetradymia nuttallii

Tetradymia canescens

Distribution
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Discussion

Sagebrush, juniper forests, pine forests. Flowering May–Aug. 300–2100 m. BR, BW, Col, ECas, Lava, Owy. CA, ID, NV, WA; north to British Columbia, northeast to MT, east to WY, southeast to NM. Native.

Source Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 362
Stephen Meyers
Sibling taxa
T. canescens, T. glabrata, T. spinosa
T. glabrata, T. spinosa
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