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Habit Annuals, to 70 cm.
Leaves

linear or pinnately lobed, 25–35 mm, lobes 5–9, linear (each with oil-gland at base).

Peduncles

3–6 cm.

Involucres

broadly campanulate to obconic, 7–8 mm.

Ray florets

usually 8;

corollas yellow-orange;

tubes 3 mm, laminae 2 × 1 mm.

Disc florets

30–50;

corollas pale yellow, often tipped with crimson, 4–5 mm.

Phyllaries

8–13, narrowly to broadly oblanceolate, remaining connate in fruit.

Calyculi

of 3–5 subulate bractlets 3–5 mm (eglandular).

Cypselae

3.5–4.5 mm;

pappi of 10 outer, erose scales 0.7–1 mm plus 10 inner, unequally 3-aristate scales 5–6.5 mm.

2n

= 14.

Adenophyllum wrightii var. wrightii

Phenology Flowering fall.
Habitat Wettish sites in otherwise arid areas, coarse, sandy alluvium
Elevation 1500–2600 m (4900–8500 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; NM; Mexico (Chihuahua)
Source FNA vol. 21, p. 239.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Pectidinae > Adenophyllum > Adenophyllum wrightii
Name authority unknown
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