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Deinandra corymbosa

coastal moonshine, coastal tarweed
Habit Annuals, 6–100 cm.
Stems

± solid.
Leaves

proximal blades pinnatifid, faces ± hirsute to villous and sometimes stipitate-glandular.
Bracts

subtending heads often overlapping proximal 0–1/2+ of each involucre.
Ray florets

15–35;

laminae deep yellow, 4–8 mm.
Disc florets

24–70, all functionally staminate;

anthers reddish to dark purple.
Phyllaries

evenly stipitate-glandular, including margins and apices, with non-glandular, non-pustule-based hairs as well.
Heads

in corymbiform, racemiform, or paniculiform arrays or in glomerules.
Paleae

in 1 series.
Pappi

0, or coroniform (irregular crowns of entire, erose, or laciniate scales 0.1–0.9) mm.
2n

= 20.

Deinandra corymbosa
Phenology Flowering Mar–Nov.
Habitat Coastal grasslands, openings in coastal scrub or woods, dunes, disturbed sites (e.g., fallow fields), sandy or clayey soils
Elevation 0–600 m (0–2000 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA
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Discussion

Deinandra corymbosa occurs on the Central Coast and the Northern Coast and in the Outer South Coast Ranges and San Francisco Bay area. Plants with relatively large heads in glomerules from the Central Coast south of Big Sur have been treated as subsp. macrocephala; no subspecies are recognized here because of wide variation in head size and arrangement along the Central Coast north and south of Big Sur.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 21, p. 286.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Madiinae > Deinandra
Sibling taxa
D. arida, D. bacigalupii, D. clementina, D. conjugens, D. fasciculata, D. floribunda, D. halliana, D. increscens, D. kelloggii, D. lobbii, D. minthornii, D. mohavensis, D. pallida, D. paniculata, D. pentactis
Synonyms Hartmannia corymbosa, D. corymbosa subsp. macrocephala, Hemizonia corymbosa, Hemizonia corymbosa subsp. macrocephala
Name authority (de Candolle) B. G. Baldwin: Novon 9: 468. (1999)
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