Eucephalus breweri |
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Brewer's aster |
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Habit | Perennials, 10–100 cm (caudices woody). |
Stems | ascending to erect, glabrate or woolly, eglandular or glandular. |
Leaves | mid and distal blades linear-lanceolate to ovate, 2–5 cm × 6–15 mm, faces glabrate and eglandular to moderately glandular and/or woolly. |
Peduncles | sparsely to densely woolly and glandular. |
Involucres | turbinate-cylindric, 6–10 mm. |
Phyllaries | in 3–4 series (sometimes reddish along margins), lance-linear to lance-oblong, ± subequal, margins eciliate, apices acuminate, abaxial faces glabrate and eglandular to moderately woolly or glandular. |
Heads | 1–15(–35) in racemiform to corymbiform or paniculiform arrays. |
Cypselae | strigose; pappus bristles in 1 series (6–10 mm), barbellate. |
Rays | 0. |
2n | = 18. |
Eucephalus breweri |
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Phenology | Flowering Jul–Sep. |
Habitat | Open coniferous forest and subalpine meadows |
Elevation | 1500–3000(–3500) m (4900–9800(–11500) ft) |
Distribution |
CA; NV
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Discussion | Eucephalus breweri is found in the Sierra Nevada. Specimens at the northern edge of the range may intergrade with E. glabratus and E. tomentellus. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 20, p. 40. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Eucephalus |
Sibling taxa | |
Synonyms | Chrysopsis breweri, Aster breweri, Heterotheca breweri |
Name authority | (A. Gray) G. L. Nesom: Phytologia 77: 254. (1995) |
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