Eriophyllum confertiflorum
Eriophyllum mohavense
golden-yarrow, yellow-yarrow
Barstow woolly sunflower, Mohave or Barstow woolly sunflower, Mojave woolly sunflower
erect (woolly).
erect to spreading.
(proximal usually mostly alternate): blades cuneate to obovate, 0.5–5 cm (the longer 1–2-pinnately lobed, lobes linear, the shorter 3–5-lobed or -toothed), ultimate margins entire, revolute, abaxial faces woolly, adaxial usually glabrate (distal leaves gradually reduced in size and lobing).
blades spatulate to cuneate, 3.5–10 mm, sometimes 1–3-lobed (each lobe terminating in short, sharp cusp), ultimate margins entire, weakly, if at all, revolute (apices acute), faces loosely woolly.
mostly 0–2.5(–9) cm.
± 0.1 cm.
campanulate, 3–7 mm diam.
cylindric to obconic, 1–2+ mm diam.
0 or 4–6(–8);
laminae golden yellow, 2–5 (× 1.5–3) mm.
0.
10–75;
corollas 2–4 mm.
± 3;
corollas ± 2 mm (tubes cylindric, throats broadly cylindric, abruptly dilated, lobes glandular; anther appendages deltate, tapering distally, not glandular).
4–7, distinct or connate at bases (broadly elliptic or ovate, carinate, apices obtuse or acute).
3–4, distinct.
(3–)4–7(–10) or 10–30+ per array.
borne singly or in clusters.
1.5–3.5 mm;
pappi of 2–14 cuneate to oblanceolate (subequal), erose scales 0.5–1.3 mm.
2–2.5 mm;
pappi of 12–14 linear to spatulate scales ± 1.5 mm.
Eriophyllum confertiflorum
Eriophyllum mohavense
Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).
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Of conservation concern.
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1. Heads 10–30+ per array; peduncles 0–1(–2) cm; involucres 3–5 mm diam.; disc corollas 2–3 mm | var. confertiflorum |
1. Heads (3–)4–7(–10) per array; peduncles 0–2.5(–9) cm; involucres 5–7 mm diam.; disc corollas 3.5–4 mm | var. tanacetiflorum |
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