Hazardia whitneyi
Hazardia stenolepis
Whitney's bristleweed, Whitney's goldenbush, Whitney's goldenweed
narrow scale goldenbush, serpentine bristleweed
scabrid to sparsely tomentulose, distally stipitate-glandular.
sparsely short-hispidulous.
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.
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.
campanulate, 11–13 × 8–12 mm.
cuneate to very narrowly turbinate, 10–17 × 3–6 mm.
0 or 5–18, sterile;
corollas longer than involucres, conspicuous.
0.
15–30;
corollas 8–10 mm.
4–8(–10);
corollas 7–9 mm.
sometimes recurved, linear-lanceolate, apices acute, herbaceous and stipitate-glandular.
stiffly erect, almost completely stramineous, linear-lanceolate, faces glabrous except minutely gland-dotted at tips.
borne singly or in spiciform, racemiform, or cymiform arrays.
in densely spiciform arrays.
5–10 mm, glabrous.
5–8 mm, glabrous.
= 10.
Hazardia whitneyi
Hazardia stenolepis
Varieties 2 (2 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. Ray florets 0 | var. discoidea |
1. Ray florets 5–18 | var. whitneyi |
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