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saw-tooth bristleweed, saw-tooth goldenbush

Orcutt's bristleweed, Orcutt's hazardia

Habit Shrubs, 30–250 cm. Shrubs, 50–100 cm.
Stems

usually sparsely tomentose or pilose.

glabrous, resinous.

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.

sessile;

blades oblanceolate to narrowly obovate, 20–50 × 3–15 mm, coriaceous, bases barely subclasping, margins entire, glabrous.

Involucres

turbinate, 8–16 × 7–10 mm.

turbinate, 7–10 × 4–6 mm.

Ray florets

0.

8–12, fertile;

corollas longer than involucres, conspicuous.

Disc florets

9–30;

corollas 9–11 mm.

10–20;

corollas 5–7 mm.

Phyllaries

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

erect to recurved, linear-oblong, apices obtuse, faces glabrous, resinous.

Heads

borne in racemo-spiciform or glomerate-spiciform arrays.

in racemiform or paniculiform arrays.

Cypselae

5–8 mm, glabrous.

3–4.5, sparsely strigose.

2n

= 10.

Hazardia squarrosa

Hazardia orcuttii

Phenology Flowering Aug–Sep.
Habitat Chaparral, coastal scrub, usually with Agave, Artemisia, Simmondsia, Opuntia, and Rhus, open habitats, coastal plains, and hills
Elevation 10–200 m (0–700 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; nw Mexico
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from FNA
CA; Mexico (Baja California)
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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. brickellioides, H. cana, H. detonsa, H. squarrosa, H. stenolepis, H. whitneyi
Subordinate taxa
H. squarrosa var. grindelioides, H. squarrosa var. obtusa, H. squarrosa var. squarrosa
Synonyms Haplopappus squarrosus Haplopappus orcuttii
Name authority (Hooker & Arnott) Greene: Erythea 2: 112. (1894) (A. Gray) Greene: Erythea 2: 112. (1894)
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