Hazardia squarrosa
Hazardia stenolepis
saw-tooth bristleweed, saw-tooth goldenbush
narrow scale goldenbush, serpentine bristleweed
usually sparsely tomentose or pilose.
sparsely short-hispidulous.
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 obovate to oblong, 15–25 × 5–12 mm, coriaceous, bases subclasping, margins coarsely spinulose-dentate or -serrate (with 5–11 pairs of teeth), faces glabrous.
turbinate, 8–16 × 7–10 mm.
cuneate to very narrowly turbinate, 10–17 × 3–6 mm.
0.
0.
9–30;
corollas 9–11 mm.
4–8(–10);
corollas 7–9 mm.
apically spreading to reflexed, oblong, apices with green area 1–2 mm, faces prominently stipitate-glandular (at least apically).
stiffly erect, almost completely stramineous, linear-lanceolate, faces glabrous except minutely gland-dotted at tips.
borne in racemo-spiciform or glomerate-spiciform arrays.
in densely spiciform arrays.
5–8 mm, glabrous.
5–8 mm, glabrous.
= 10.
Hazardia squarrosa
Hazardia stenolepis
Varieties 3 (3 in the flora).
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Hazardia stenolepis is distinguished by its hairy stems, glabrous, relatively small leaves, discoid heads, and long, narrow involucres with stramineous, linear-lanceolate phyllaries.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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 |
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