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townsendia

Habit Herbs biennial or perennial, sometimes cushion-forming; taprooted.
Stems

1–numerous, decumbent to erect, strigose to hispid.

Leaves

basal and cauline, linear to spatulate;

surfaces glabrous to glabrate or strigose, usually petiolate.

Inflorescences

heads solitary; terminal or on scapiform peduncles.

Involucres

hemispheric or campanulate.

Receptacles

flat or convex;

paleae 0.

Ray florets

pistillate;

rays narrowly oblanceolate or oblong, white to pink or purple.

Disc florets

bisexual;

corollas cylindric, usually slightly enlarged distally, yellow;

lobes 5, triangular; erect;

stamens included or partially exserted.

Phyllaries

in 3–7 series; erect to spreading, narrowly lanceolate to lance-ovate;

margins narrowly membranous;

surfaces glabrous to strigose; inner equal; outer gradually shorter.

Fruits

obovate or oblanceolate, compressed, glabrous to pubescent, pappi of lanceolate or narrow, tapering; bristle-like scales.

Heads

radiate.

Townsendia eximia

Townsendia

Distribution
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Discussion

Western North America. 26–27 species; 4 species treated in Flora.

Source Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 364
Stephen Meyers
Sibling taxa
T. florifer, T. montana, T. parryi, T. scapigera
Subordinate taxa
T. florifer, T. montana, T. parryi, T. scapigera
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