Eriophyllum ambiguum
annual woolly sunflower, beautiful woolly sunflower
decumbent to ascending.
blades oblong to oblanceolate, 5–40 mm, margins entire or toothed, plane (apices rounded to acute), faces lanate or tometose to tomentulose.
1–8 cm.
hemispheric to obconic, 5–6 mm diam.
6–10;
laminae yellow, 2–10 mm.
10–30;
corollas 1.3–3 mm (tubes cylindric, throats broadly funnelform, abruptly dilated, lobes glabrous or hairy, hairs 1-celled, not glandular; anther appendages deltate, widest at bases, not glandular).
6–10, ± connate.
borne singly.
2.2–3 mm;
pappi 0 or of 6–10 ± ovate to cuneate, entire, erose, or laciniate scales 0.1–0.5 mm.
Eriophyllum ambiguum
CA; NV
Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
1. Disc corolla lobes glabrous; pappi of 6–10 erose to laciniate scales 0.2–0.5 mm | var. ambiguum |
1. Disc corolla lobes hairy (hairs 1-celled); pappi 0, or of 6–10 entire scales 0.1–0.2 mm | var. paleaceum |
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