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white Easter bonnets, white easterbonnets or woolly daisy, white woolly daisy

many stem eriophyllum, many-stem woolly sunflower

Habit Annuals, 3–15 cm. Annuals, 2–15 cm.
Stems

decumbent to ascending.

spreading.

Leaves

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

blades ± cuneate, ± 10 mm, usually 3-lobed, ultimate margins entire, plane (apices ± rounded), faces ± woolly.

Peduncles

1–5 cm.

± 0.1 cm.

Involucres

campanulate to obconic, 3–5 mm diam.

campanulate to hemispheric, 2–3+ mm diam.

Ray florets

8–10;

laminae white with red veins, 3–5 mm.

5–7;

laminae yellow, ± 2 mm.

Disc florets

10–20;

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

10–20;

corollas ± 2 mm (tubes cylindric, throats broadly cylindric, abruptly dilated, lobes glandular; anther appendages narrowly deltate, not glandular).

Phyllaries

8–10, distinct.

5–7, distinct.

Heads

borne singly.

borne singly or in clusters.

Cypselae

2.5–4.5 mm;

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

± 2 mm;

pappi usually of 10–15 ± lanceolate scales ± 1 mm, rarely 0.

2n

= 8.

= 14.

Eriophyllum lanosum

Eriophyllum multicaule

Phenology Flowering Feb–May. Flowering Mar–Jul.
Habitat Sandy or gravelly openings, desert scrublands Sandy openings in chaparral or coastal scrublands
Elevation 70–1400 m (200–4600 ft) 0–1600 m (0–5200 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; CA; NM; NV; UT; Mexico (Baja California)
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from FNA
CA
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Source FNA vol. 21, p. 355. FNA vol. 21, p. 355.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Baeriinae > Eriophyllum 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
E. ambiguum, E. confertiflorum, E. congdonii, E. jepsonii, E. lanatum, E. lanosum, E. latilobum, E. mohavense, E. nubigenum, E. pringlei, E. staechadifolium, E. wallacei
Synonyms Burrielia lanosa, Antheropeas lanosum Actinolepis multicaulis
Name authority (A. Gray) A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 19: 25. (1883) (de Candolle) A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 19: 24. (1883)
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