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Glyptopleura marginata

and crustleaf, carve-seed, holy dandelion, keysia, white-margined wax-plant
Habit Plants 1–6 cm.
Leaves

0.5–5 cm, margins conspicuously white-crustose.
Involucres

10–14 mm.
Florets

9–18;

corollas white to cream, aging pink or purple, ligules 4–10 mm, equaling or scarcely exserted beyond involucres.
Calyculi

margins of bractlets crustose-dentate ± throughout.
Heads

1–2 cm diam.
2n

= 18.

Glyptopleura marginata
Phenology Flowering Apr–Jul.
Habitat Sandy or rocky deserts, alkali flats, arid grasslands, often with Atriplex, sometimes with Larrea
Elevation 1000–2000 m (3300–6600 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; ID; NV; UT
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Discussion

Glyptopleura marginata is found in the Great Basin and Mojave deserts.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 19, p. 362.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Cichorieae > Glyptopleura
Sibling taxa
G. setulosa
Name authority D. C. Eaton: in S. Watson, Botany (Fortieth Parallel), 207, plate 20, figs. 11–18. (1871)
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