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saw-tooth bristleweed, saw-tooth goldenbush

Habit Shrubs, 30–250 cm.
Stems

usually sparsely tomentose or pilose.

Leaves

sessile;

blades oblong or oblong-obovate to widely obovate, 13–35(–50) × 5–17(–24) mm, coriaceous, bases clasping to subclasping, margins spinulose-dentate (teeth in 3–13 pairs), adaxial faces glabrous to sparsely puberulent.

Involucres

turbinate, 8–16 × 7–10 mm.

Ray florets

0.

Disc florets

9–30;

corollas 9–11 mm.

Phyllaries

apically spreading to reflexed, oblong, apices with green area 1–2 mm, faces prominently stipitate-glandular (at least apically).

Heads

borne in racemo-spiciform or glomerate-spiciform arrays.

Cypselae

5–8 mm, glabrous.

Hazardia squarrosa

Distribution
from FNA
CA; nw Mexico
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Discussion

Varieties 3 (3 in the flora).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Key
1. Leaves sparsely puberulent, not resinous; involucres 8–12 mm; disc florets 9–16, corollas 9–10 mm
var. grindelioides
1. Leaves glabrous or sparsely puberulent, resinous; involucres 11–15 mm; disc florets 18–30, corollas 10–11 mm
→ 2
2. Stems glabrous or scabrous; phyllaries erect, ± obtuse-mucronate, glabrous, resinous
var. obtusa
2. Stems distally sparsely hairy or glabrescent; phyllaries recurved, obtuse to acute, glandular
var. squarrosa
Source FNA vol. 20, p. 448.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Hazardia
Sibling taxa
H. brickellioides, H. cana, H. detonsa, H. orcuttii, H. stenolepis, H. whitneyi
Subordinate taxa
H. squarrosa var. grindelioides, H. squarrosa var. obtusa, H. squarrosa var. squarrosa
Synonyms Haplopappus squarrosus
Name authority (Hooker & Arnott) Greene: Erythea 2: 112. (1894)
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