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saw-tooth bristleweed, saw-tooth goldenbush

brickell goldenbush, brickellbush bristleweed, brickellbush goldenweed, brickellia leaf hazardia

Habit Shrubs, 30–250 cm. Shrubs, 20–80 cm.
Stems

usually sparsely tomentose or pilose.

scabrous to hispid, some hairs yellow gland-tipped.

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.

subsessile or subpetiolate;

blades elliptic to obovate or obovate-cuneate, 10–35 × 5–25 mm, coriaceous, bases not clasping, margins usually coarsely spinulose-dentate (with 1–4 pairs of teeth), rarely entire, apices acute, faces pilose to scabrous, some hairs yellow gland-tipped.

Involucres

turbinate, 8–16 × 7–10 mm.

cylindric to turbinate, 6–7 × 4–5 mm.

Ray florets

0.

5–8, fertile;

corollas shorter than involucres, inconspicuous.

Disc florets

9–30;

corollas 9–11 mm.

8–12;

corollas 6–8 mm.

Phyllaries

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

recurved (or inner erect), lanceolate, apices acute, faces hispidulous, glandular.

Heads

borne in racemo-spiciform or glomerate-spiciform arrays.

borne singly or 2–3 in cymiform arrays.

Cypselae

5–8 mm, glabrous.

2–3 mm, sparsely sericeous.

2n

= 12.

Hazardia squarrosa

Hazardia brickellioides

Phenology Flowering Jun–Oct.
Habitat Limestone outcrops and cliffs
Elevation 700–2100 m (2300–6900 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; nw Mexico
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from FNA
CA; NV
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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. FNA vol. 20, p. 449.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Hazardia Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Hazardia
Sibling taxa
H. brickellioides, H. cana, H. detonsa, H. orcuttii, H. stenolepis, H. whitneyi
H. cana, H. detonsa, H. orcuttii, H. squarrosa, H. stenolepis, H. whitneyi
Subordinate taxa
H. squarrosa var. grindelioides, H. squarrosa var. obtusa, H. squarrosa var. squarrosa
Synonyms Haplopappus squarrosus Haplopappus brickellioides
Name authority (Hooker & Arnott) Greene: Erythea 2: 112. (1894) (S. F. Blake) W. D. Clark: Madroño 26: 125. (1979)
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