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San Felipe dogweed, San Felipe dyssodia

Habit Perennials or subshrubs, 20–50+ cm.
Leaves

pinnately lobed, 15–40 mm, lobes 3–5, linear to cuneate or oblanceolate (oil-glands at base of each lobe and subterminal in tips).

Peduncles

20–80 mm.

Involucres

obconic, 10–15 mm.

Ray florets

10–14;

corollas yellow, becoming red-orange;

tubes ca. 2 mm, laminae 6 × 2 mm.

Disc florets

25–40;

corollas yellow-orange, 7–8 mm.

Phyllaries

12–20, lanceolate, separating in fruit.

Calyculi

of 12–16 subulate bractlets 3–8 mm (bearing glands).

Cypselae

5 mm;

pappi of 8–12 scales 7–8 mm, each comprising 7–11 basally connate bristles.

2n

= 26.

Adenophyllum porophylloides

Phenology Flowering spring and fall.
Habitat Alluvial fans and rocky slopes in deserts
Elevation 0–1200 m (0–3900 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; CA; NV; Mexico (Baja California, Sonora)
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Source FNA vol. 21, p. 239.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Pectidinae > Adenophyllum
Sibling taxa
A. cooperi, A. wrightii
Synonyms Dyssodia porophylloides
Name authority (A. Gray) Strother: Sida 11: 377. (1986)
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