Eucephalus tomentellus |
Eucephalus glaucescens |
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brickellbush aster, hairy rayless aster, rayless aster |
Klickitat aster |
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Habit | Perennials 40–90 cm (caudices woody). | Perennials, 40–160 cm (with caudices; herbage glabrous, ± glaucous). |
Stems | erect, woolly or cottony. |
erect, glabrous. |
Leaves | mid and distal blades lanceolate to elliptic, 2.5–6 cm × 7–20 mm, abaxial faces glabrous or glabrate, adaxial ± densely woolly to cottony. |
mid and distal blades linear to narrowly lance-elliptic, 4–10 cm × 4–16 mm. |
Peduncles | pubescent. |
glabrous or sparsely stipitate-glandular. |
Involucres | turbinate, 7–10 mm. |
turbinate to campanulate, 7–9 mm. |
Phyllaries | in 4–6 series (often reddish at margins and apices), linear-oblong to ovate (strongly unequal), apices acute, abaxial faces tomentose to stipitate-glandular. |
in 3–5 series (reddish distally), linear to lanceolate or lance-ovate (unequal), apices acuminate, abaxial faces sparsely stipitate-glandular. |
Heads | 3–40 in racemiform to paniculiform arrays. |
5–20(–60) in racemiform to paniculiform arrays. |
Cypselae | glabrous or pilose; pappus bristles in 2 series, ± barbellate. |
obconic, flattened, strigose; pappus bristles in 2 series, smooth or ± barbellate. |
Rays | (0–)1–3(–6), violet-purple. |
commonly 8 or 13, purple. |
Eucephalus tomentellus |
Eucephalus glaucescens |
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Phenology | Flowering Jul–Aug. | Flowering Jul–Sep(–Oct). |
Habitat | Open oak or coniferous woods, forest openings and rocky cliffs | Open coniferous woods, meadows, brushy slopes |
Elevation | 1300–2400 m (4300–7900 ft) | 800–1500 m (2600–4900 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; OR
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WA
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Discussion | Eucephalus tomentellus grows in the Siskiyou Mountains of southwestern Oregon and northern California. It may intergrade with E. breweri and E. glabratus. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Of conservation concern. Eucephalus glaucescens is known from the vicinity of Mt. Adams in Klickitat, Skamania, and Yakima counties. Intermediates with E. ledophyllus have been reported. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 20, p. 42. | FNA vol. 20, p. 41. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Eucephalus | Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Eucephalus |
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Synonyms | Sericocarpus tomentellus, Aster brickellioides, Aster tomentellus, E. bicolor, E. brickellioides | Aster engelmannii var. glaucescens, Aster glaucescens, Aster glaucophyllus, Aster serrulatus, E. glaucophyllus, E. serrulatus |
Name authority | (Greene) Greene: Pittonia 3: 55. (1896) | (A. Gray) Greene: Pittonia 3: 56. (1896) |
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