Ericameria discoidea |
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discoid goldenweed, rayless goldenbush, sharp-scale goldenweed, white-stem goldenbush |
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Habit | Plants 10–40 cm. |
Stems | erect to spreading, abundantly branched, twigs green when young, concealed by whitish, pannose tomentum, sporadically stipitate-glandular. |
Leaves | ascending to spreading; blades linear or oblong to oblanceolate (flat), 10–35 × 2–7 mm, midnerves evident (1–2 fainter, collateral nerves often present), (margins often undulate) apices acute to obtuse, usually apiculate, faces usually stipitate-glandular, resinous; axillary fascicles absent. |
Peduncles | 3–15 mm (bracts 0–3, reduced, leaflike, whitish tomentose and usually stipitate-glandular). |
Involucres | obconic, 9–13 × 6–10 mm. |
Ray florets | 0. |
Disc florets | 10–26; corollas 9–11 mm. |
Phyllaries | 12–17 in 2–3 series, green to tan, lanceolate to oblong, 6–10 × 1–2 mm, subequal, outer herbaceous or distally so, inner mostly chartaceous, midnerves evident, (margins of outer often distally stipitate-glandular, of inner narrowly membranous, sometimes minutely ciliolate) apices acute to attenuate, abaxial faces stipitate-glandular. |
Heads | borne singly or in cymiform to racemiform arrays. |
Cypselae | brownish, narrowly oblong to narrowly ovoid, 5–6 mm, villous; pappi tan, 8.5–11 mm. |
2n | = 18. |
Ericameria discoidea |
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Phenology | Flowering late summer–fall. |
Habitat | Rocky, open or sparsely wooded slopes, often in coarse talus |
Elevation | 2500–3800 m (8200–12500 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; CO; ID; MT; NV; OR; UT
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Discussion | Ericameria discoidea is common in the Rocky Mountains. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 20, p. 58. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Ericameria |
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Synonyms | Macronema discoidea, Haplopappus macronema |
Name authority | (Nuttall) G. L. Nesom: Phytologia 68: 153. (1990) |
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