Calycadenia oppositifolia |
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Butte County calycadenia, Butte County western rosinweed |
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Habit | Plants 10–30 cm; self-incompatible. |
Stems | simple or sparingly branched (very slender), strigose and sparsely spreading-hairy. |
Leaves | mostly or all opposite, 1–5 cm (little reduced distally), strigillose and ± long-hairy (at least proximally). |
Ray florets | 2–4; corollas white to reddish, tubes ca. 2 mm, laminae 6–9 mm (central lobes ± equaling or narrower than laterals, elliptic, nearly symmetric, widest near middles, sinuses equaling laminae). |
Disc florets | 4–20; corollas white to pink, ca. 6 mm. |
Phyllaries | (often reddish) 4–7 mm, abaxial faces sometimes minutely scabrous, often sparsely bristly, tack-glands usually 0, sometimes 1+. |
Heads | in congested, axillary glomerules (appearing whorled). |
Disc cypselae | ca. 3 mm, ± appressed-hairy; pappi of 8–10 usually lanceolate, acuminate scales ca. 2 mm (often 2–4 shorter, blunt). |
Ray cypselae | ca. 3 mm, usually smooth, glabrous. |
Peduncular | bracts lanceolate (flat, stiff, sometimes ± cylindric near apices), 4–10 mm (hispidulous, ± bristly and/or pectinate-fimbriate, especially proximally), apices ± rounded, tack-glands (0–)1–5+. |
Paleae | 4–7 mm. |
2n | = 14. |
Calycadenia oppositifolia |
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Phenology | Flowering spring–early summer. |
Habitat | Open, dry meadows, hillsides |
Elevation | 50–900 m (200–3000 ft) |
Distribution |
CA
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Discussion | Calycadenia oppositifolia is known only from the Sierra Nevada foothills of Butte County. Its closest relative may be C. multiglandulosa. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 21, p. 274. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Madiinae > Calycadenia |
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Synonyms | Hemizonia oppositifolia |
Name authority | (Greene) Greene: Fl. Francisc. 4: 423. (1897) |
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