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annual woolly sunflower, beautiful woolly sunflower

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annual woolly sunflower, beautiful woolly sunflower

Habit Annuals, 5–30 cm.
Stems

decumbent to ascending.

Leaves

blades oblong to oblanceolate, 5–40 mm, margins entire or toothed, plane (apices rounded to acute), faces lanate or tometose to tomentulose.

Peduncles

1–8 cm.

Involucres

hemispheric to obconic, 5–6 mm diam.

Ray florets

6–10;

laminae yellow, 2–10 mm.

Disc florets

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).

15–30;

corolla lobes hairy (hairs 1-celled).

Phyllaries

6–10, ± connate.

Heads

borne singly.

Cypselae

2.2–3 mm;

pappi 0 or of 6–10 ± ovate to cuneate, entire, erose, or laciniate scales 0.1–0.5 mm.

Pappi

0 or of 6–10 entire scales 0.1–0.2 mm.

2n

= 14.

Eriophyllum ambiguum

Eriophyllum ambiguum var. paleaceum

Phenology Flowering Jan–Jul.
Habitat Sandy or rocky openings, creosote-bush scrublands, or Joshua tree or pinyon-juniper woodlands
Elevation 100–2800 m (300–9200 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; NV
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from FNA
CA; NV
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Discussion

Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Key
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
Source FNA vol. 21, p. 356. FNA vol. 21, p. 356.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Baeriinae > Eriophyllum Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Baeriinae > Eriophyllum > Eriophyllum ambiguum
Sibling taxa
E. confertiflorum, E. congdonii, E. jepsonii, E. lanatum, E. lanosum, E. latilobum, E. mohavense, E. multicaule, E. nubigenum, E. pringlei, E. staechadifolium, E. wallacei
E. ambiguum var. ambiguum
Subordinate taxa
E. ambiguum var. ambiguum, E. ambiguum var. paleaceum
Synonyms Lasthenia ambigua E. paleaceum
Name authority (A. Gray) A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 19: 26. (1883) (Brandegee) Ferris: Contr. Dudley Herb. 5: 100. (1958)
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