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Pringle eriophyllum, Pringle's woolly sunflower

Habit Annuals, 1–5 cm.
Stems

± spreading.

Leaves

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

Peduncles

± 0.1 cm.

Involucres

broadly campanulate to hemispheric, 3–5+ mm diam.

Ray florets

0.

Disc florets

10–20;

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

Phyllaries

6–8, distinct.

Heads

borne singly or in clusters.

Cypselae

1.5–2 mm;

pappi of 5–12 ± oblanceolate scales ± 1 mm.

2n

= 14 + 0–1 B or 0–1 I, 16.

Eriophyllum pringlei

Phenology Flowering Feb–Jul.
Habitat Sandy or gravelly openings in desert, creosote-bush, or sagebrush scrublands, or chaparral
Elevation 300–2200 m (1000–7200 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; CA; NV; 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. lanosum, E. latilobum, E. mohavense, E. multicaule, E. nubigenum, E. staechadifolium, E. wallacei
Name authority A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 19: 25. (1883)
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