Eriophyllum lanosum
Eriophyllum latilobum
white Easter bonnets, white easterbonnets or woolly daisy, white woolly daisy
San Mateo woolly sunflower
decumbent to ascending.
erect (woolly).
blades oblanceolate to linear, 5–20 mm, rarely lobed, ultimate margins, usually entire, plane (apices acute), faces sparsely woolly.
(proximal alternate): blades rhombic to obovate, 2–6 cm, 1-pinnately lobed (lobes 3–5, ± triangular), ultimate margins entire, revolute, abaxial faces loosely woolly, adaxial glabrate (distal leaves gradually reduced in size and lobing).
1–5 cm.
mostly 2–7 cm.
campanulate to obconic, 3–5 mm diam.
broadly campanulate, 5–6(–7) mm diam.
8–10;
laminae white with red veins, 3–5 mm.
(6–)8–10(–13);
laminae yellow, 6–10 (× 4.5–5) mm.
10–20;
corollas 2–3 mm (tubes cylindric, throats funnelform, gradually dilated, lobes glandular; anther appendages subulate, not glandular).
40–75;
corollas 3–4.5 mm.
8–10, distinct.
6–10, distinct (ovate, carinate, apices acute).
borne singly.
2–5(–10) in corymbiform arrays.
2.5–4.5 mm;
pappi of 5 subulate scales 1.5–2.5 mm plus 4–5 oblong scales ± 0.5 mm.
2–3 mm;
pappi of 4 cuneate to oblanceolate scales 0.3–1 mm alternating with 4 shorter scales (in disc cypselae, disc pappi longer than ray pappi).
= 8.
= 32.
Eriophyllum lanosum
Eriophyllum latilobum
Of conservation concern.
Eriophyllum latilobum combines characteristics of E. confertiflorum var. confertiflorum, with which it sometimes mingles, and E. lanatum var. arachnoideum. It may have originated by hybridization between them (L. Constance 1937; P. A. Munz 1959).
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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