Hazardia squarrosa |
Hazardia orcuttii |
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saw-tooth bristleweed, saw-tooth goldenbush |
Orcutt's bristleweed, Orcutt's hazardia |
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Habit | Shrubs, 30–250 cm. | Shrubs, 50–100 cm. | ||||||||
Stems | usually sparsely tomentose or pilose. |
glabrous, resinous. |
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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. |
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Involucres | turbinate, 8–16 × 7–10 mm. |
turbinate, 7–10 × 4–6 mm. |
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Ray florets | 0. |
8–12, fertile; corollas longer than involucres, conspicuous. |
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Disc florets | 9–30; corollas 9–11 mm. |
10–20; corollas 5–7 mm. |
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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. |
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Heads | borne in racemo-spiciform or glomerate-spiciform arrays. |
in racemiform or paniculiform arrays. |
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Cypselae | 5–8 mm, glabrous. |
3–4.5, sparsely strigose. |
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2n | = 10. |
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Hazardia squarrosa |
Hazardia orcuttii |
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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 |
CA; nw Mexico
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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.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 20, p. 448. | FNA vol. 20, p. 449. | ||||||||
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Hazardia | Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Hazardia | ||||||||
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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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