Hazardia squarrosa |
Hazardia squarrosa var. grindelioides |
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saw-tooth bristleweed, saw-tooth goldenbush |
gum plant goldenbush, sawtooth bristleweed |
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Habit | Shrubs, 30–250 cm. | |||||||||
Stems | usually sparsely tomentose or pilose. |
sparsely puberulent, often tomentulose proximal to heads. |
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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. |
sparsely puberulent, not resinous. |
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Involucres | turbinate, 8–16 × 7–10 mm. |
8–12 mm. |
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Ray florets | 0. |
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Disc florets | 9–30; corollas 9–11 mm. |
9–16; corollas 9–10 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). |
recurved, margins glandular (if at all), apices obtuse to acute, faces apically cinereous. |
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Heads | borne in racemo-spiciform or glomerate-spiciform arrays. |
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Cypselae | 5–8 mm, glabrous. |
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2n | = 10. |
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Hazardia squarrosa |
Hazardia squarrosa var. grindelioides |
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Phenology | Flowering Jul–Oct. | |||||||||
Habitat | Chaparral in foothills, coastal mountains, and islands, usually with Quercus, Pinus, Arctostaphylos, Rhus, Heteromeles, Adenostoma, Ceanothus | |||||||||
Elevation | 100–1300 m (300–4300 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. 448. | ||||||||
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Hazardia | Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Hazardia > Hazardia squarrosa | ||||||||
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Synonyms | Haplopappus squarrosus | Pyrrocoma grindelioides, Haplopappus squarrosus subsp. grindelioides | ||||||||
Name authority | (Hooker & Arnott) Greene: Erythea 2: 112. (1894) | (de Candolle) W. D. Clark: Madroño 26: 122. (1979) | ||||||||
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