Flora of North America species comparison

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Geraea viscida

sticky desert-sunflower, sticky geraea
Habit Perennials, 30–100 cm (caudices underground); herbage densely glandular-puberulent and ± bristly.
Leaves

sessile;

blades green, ovate to oblong, 3–9 cm, bases ± auriculate, margins entire or dentate, apices obtuse, faces glandular-puberulent to stipitate-glandular.
Involucres

10–15 mm.
Ray florets

0.
Disc corollas

6–8 mm.
Phyllaries

green, narrowly lance-oblong, apices obtuse (abaxial faces densely glandular-puberulent).
Heads

usually borne singly.
Cypselae

7–10 mm;

pappi 3–5 mm.
2n

= 36.

Geraea viscida
Phenology Flowering May–Jul.
Habitat Openings in chaparral
Elevation 400–1700 m (1300–5600 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; Mexico (Baja California)
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Source FNA vol. 21, p. 122.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Ecliptinae > Geraea
Sibling taxa
G. canescens
Synonyms Encelia viscida
Name authority (A. Gray) S. F. Blake: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 49: 357. (1913)
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