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Hecastocleis shockleyi

prickle-leaf, Shockley's prickleleaf
Leaves

blades 1–4 cm, bases ± clasping, margins thickened, usually with 3–6 spines 1–3 mm near bases, apices mucronate or acute.
Corollas

pinkish purple in bud, white at flowering, ca. 10 mm.
Phyllaries

usually lanate on margins.
Cypselae

brown, 5 mm;

pappi 1–2 mm.
2n

= 16.

Hecastocleis shockleyi
Phenology Flowering Apr–Jun.
Habitat Granite, basalt, and caliche soils, low desert scrub
Elevation 1700–2000 m (5600–6600 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; NV
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Discussion

Hecastocleis shockleyi is known from southwestern Nevada and adjacent California.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 19, p. 72.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Mutisieae > Hecastocleis
Name authority A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 17: 221. (1882)
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