Flora of North America species comparison

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Agnorhiza invenusta

Coville's mule-ears
Habit Plants 20–60(–100) cm.
Stems

erect, usually distally branched (densely glandular distally).
Cauline leaves

blades ± deltate to ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 7–20 cm, bases broadly cuneate to truncate or shallowly cordate, margins usually entire, rarely irregularly crenate, faces piloso-hispid or hirtellous (usually gland-dotted or stipitate-glandular as well).
Involucres

± hemispheric, 20–30 mm diam.
Ray florets

0 or 2–3, laminae 6–10 mm.
Outer phyllaries

lineartriangular to lanceolate, 18–25(–30+) mm (equaling or slightly surpassing discs).
Heads

usually held beyond leaves.
Cypselae

7–8 mm, glabrous (apices developing knoblike projections on angles);

pappi 0.

Agnorhiza invenusta
Phenology Flowering Jun–Jul.
Habitat Openings in chaparral and in pine and oak forests
Elevation (600–)1100–1900(–2300) m ((2000–)3600–6200(–7500) ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Agnorhiza invenusta is known only from the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 21, p. 105.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Ecliptinae > Agnorhiza
Sibling taxa
A. bolanderi, A. elata, A. ovata, A. reticulata
Synonyms Helianthus invenustus, Balsamorhiza invenusta, Wyethia invenusta
Name authority (Greene) W. A. Weber: Phytologia 85: 20. (1999)
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