Eriophyllum pringlei
Eriophyllum ambiguum
Pringle eriophyllum, Pringle's woolly sunflower
annual woolly sunflower, beautiful woolly sunflower
± spreading.
decumbent to ascending.
blades ± cuneate, 3–10 mm, usually 3-lobed, ultimate margins entire, strongly revolute (apices ± rounded), faces woolly.
blades oblong to oblanceolate, 5–40 mm, margins entire or toothed, plane (apices rounded to acute), faces lanate or tometose to tomentulose.
± 0.1 cm.
1–8 cm.
broadly campanulate to hemispheric, 3–5+ mm diam.
hemispheric to obconic, 5–6 mm diam.
0.
6–10;
laminae yellow, 2–10 mm.
10–20;
corollas ± 2 mm (tubes cylindric, throats broadly cylindric, abruptly dilated, lobes glandular; anther appendages deltate, tapering distally, not glandular).
10–30;
corollas 1.3–3 mm (tubes cylindric, throats broadly funnelform, abruptly dilated, lobes glabrous or hairy, hairs 1-celled, not glandular; anther appendages deltate, widest at bases, not glandular).
6–8, distinct.
6–10, ± connate.
borne singly or in clusters.
borne singly.
1.5–2 mm;
pappi of 5–12 ± oblanceolate scales ± 1 mm.
2.2–3 mm;
pappi 0 or of 6–10 ± ovate to cuneate, entire, erose, or laciniate scales 0.1–0.5 mm.
= 14 + 0–1 B or 0–1 I, 16.
Eriophyllum pringlei
Eriophyllum ambiguum
Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
1. Disc corolla lobes glabrous; pappi of 6–10 erose to laciniate scales 0.2–0.5 mm | var. ambiguum |
1. Disc corolla lobes hairy (hairs 1-celled); pappi 0, or of 6–10 entire scales 0.1–0.2 mm | var. paleaceum |
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