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Eriophyllum lanosum

white Easter bonnets, white easterbonnets or woolly daisy, white woolly daisy
Habit Annuals, 3–15 cm.
Stems

decumbent to ascending.
Leaves

blades oblanceolate to linear, 5–20 mm, rarely lobed, ultimate margins, usually entire, plane (apices acute), faces sparsely woolly.
Peduncles

1–5 cm.
Involucres

campanulate to obconic, 3–5 mm diam.
Ray florets

8–10;

laminae white with red veins, 3–5 mm.
Disc florets

10–20;

corollas 2–3 mm (tubes cylindric, throats funnelform, gradually dilated, lobes glandular; anther appendages subulate, not glandular).
Phyllaries

8–10, distinct.
Heads

borne singly.
Cypselae

2.5–4.5 mm;

pappi of 5 subulate scales 1.5–2.5 mm plus 4–5 oblong scales ± 0.5 mm.
2n

= 8.

Eriophyllum lanosum
Phenology Flowering Feb–May.
Habitat Sandy or gravelly openings, desert scrublands
Elevation 70–1400 m (200–4600 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; CA; NM; NV; UT; Mexico (Baja California)
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Source FNA vol. 21, p. 355.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Baeriinae > Eriophyllum
Sibling taxa
E. ambiguum, E. confertiflorum, E. congdonii, E. jepsonii, E. lanatum, E. latilobum, E. mohavense, E. multicaule, E. nubigenum, E. pringlei, E. staechadifolium, E. wallacei
Synonyms Burrielia lanosa, Antheropeas lanosum
Name authority (A. Gray) A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 19: 25. (1883)
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