Eucephalus breweri
Eucephalus ledophyllus
Brewer's aster
Cascade aster
ascending to erect, glabrate or woolly, eglandular or glandular.
erect, pilose to stipitate-glandular.
mid and distal blades linear-lanceolate to ovate, 2–5 cm × 6–15 mm, faces glabrate and eglandular to moderately glandular and/or woolly.
mid and distal blades lance-elliptic to oblong, 2.5–7 cm × 5–20 mm, glabrous or sparsely pubescent abaxially, ± densely cottony and sometimes stipitate-glandular adaxially.
sparsely to densely woolly and glandular.
pilose to stipitate-glandular.
turbinate-cylindric, 6–10 mm.
turbinate, 7–11 mm.
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.
in 3–5 series (usually reddish at margins and apices), lanceolate (strongly unequal), apices acute to acuminate, abaxial faces puberulent to stipitate-glandular.
1–15(–35) in racemiform to corymbiform or paniculiform arrays.
3–20 in racemiform to corymbiform arrays.
strigose;
pappus bristles in 1 series (6–10 mm), barbellate.
pilose;
pappus bristles in 2 series, smooth or ± barbellate.
0.
5–21, purple.
= 18.
= 18.
Eucephalus breweri
Eucephalus ledophyllus
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.)
eucephalus ledophyllus may intergrade with e. engelmannii in the northern part of its range
Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
1. Peduncles glandular or not, at least ± woolly or cottony; rays usually 13 or 21 | var. ledophyllus |
1. Peduncles glandular, not cottony; rays usually 5 or 8 | var. covillei |
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