Uropappus lindleyi
Lindley's silver puffs, linearleaf microseris
erect, initially short, often elongating; leafy with age, proximally lightly white-villous, distally usually reddish and glabrous.
basal and cauline, alternate, 5–30 cm, usually pinnatifid with slender, acuminate rachises and linear lobes, white-villous proximally on margins and upper surfaces, usually glabrous distally, often reddish.
heads solitary; terminal and axillary.
10–40 mm, often reddish;
surfaces glabrous.
5–150; bisexual;
ligules equaling or barely exceeding involucres, yellow; outer often reddish abaxially.
flat or convex;
paleae 0.
5–26; in 3–4 series; erect, lanceolate, reflexing at maturity; outer ~½ as long as inner.
narrowly fusiform; slender, tapering to a short slender beak, 7–17 mm; blackish, 10-ribbed;
ribs scabrous to hispidulous, pappi of 5 lanceolate scales, 5–15 mm; silvery, notched at tip; notches 1–2 mm, terminating in short, delicate bristles.
ligulate; erect;
peduncles swollen and hollow distally, 5–40 cm, usually reddish;
surfaces glabrous but often white-puberulent when young, sometimes minutely glandular proximally.
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Uropappus lindleyi
Interior grasslands, shrublands, open woodlands. Flowering Mar–Jun. 50–1400 m. BR, BW, Col, Lava, Owy, Sisk. CA, ID, NV, WA; north to British Columbia, south to TX, south to Mexico. Native.
The northernmost occurrence of Uropappus lindleyi is on the islands east of southern Vancouver Island, probably a result of long-range achene dispersal by birds. In its northern range, Uropappus lindleyi is a very distinct species, but in California, it is linked morphologically to Microseris through the two intergeneric alloploid hybrid species of Stebbinsoseris.
Kenton Chambers
- Local floras:
BC, 
CA, 
OR, 
WA - Local Web sites: CalFlora, CalPhotos,
Flora NW, 
PNW Herbaria, Turner Photog. 
WildflowerSearch
iNaturalist (observations)
USDA Plants Database- LBJ Wildflower Center
- SEINet
- Plants of the World Online
- Encyclopedia of Life
- Wikipedia
- Google Image Search
