Hazardia whitneyi |
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Whitney's bristleweed, Whitney's goldenbush, Whitney's goldenweed |
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Habit | Perennials (from woody rootstocks) or subshrubs, 20–50 cm. | ||||
Stems | scabrid to sparsely tomentulose, distally stipitate-glandular. |
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Leaves | sessile; blades widely oblong to oblanceolate, 25–50 × 7–16 mm, subcoriaceous, bases subclasping (distal), margins serrate, apices acute, faces glabrous, sparsely puberulent, or glandular-scabrid. |
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Involucres | campanulate, 11–13 × 8–12 mm. |
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Ray florets | 0 or 5–18, sterile; corollas longer than involucres, conspicuous. |
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Disc florets | 15–30; corollas 8–10 mm. |
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Phyllaries | sometimes recurved, linear-lanceolate, apices acute, herbaceous and stipitate-glandular. |
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Heads | borne singly or in spiciform, racemiform, or cymiform arrays. |
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Cypselae | 5–10 mm, glabrous. |
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Hazardia whitneyi |
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Distribution |
CA; OR
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Discussion | Varieties 2 (2 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. 447. | ||||
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Hazardia | ||||
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Synonyms | Haplopappus whitneyi | ||||
Name authority | (A. Gray) Greene: Pittonia 3: 43. (1896) | ||||
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