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Parry's hawkweed, Scouler's woollyweed

Habit Plants 15–45+ cm.
Stems

proximally piloso-hirsute (hairs 1–3+ mm) and stipitate-glandular, distally piloso-hirsute (hairs 1–2+ mm) and stipitate-glandular.

Leaves

basal (0–)3–5, cauline 2–3(–8);

blades lance-elliptic to lanceolate, 30–80(–100) × (3–)10–20(–30+) mm, lengths 3–8(–10+) times widths, bases cuneate, margins usually entire, sometimes denticulate, apices obtuse to acute, faces usually piloso-hirsute (hairs 1–3+ mm), sometimes glabrate.

Peduncles

densely stipitate-glandular.

Involucres

campanulate, 10–12 mm.

Florets

30–60+;

corollas yellow, 9–11 mm.

Phyllaries

13–21+, apices ± acuminate, abaxial faces stipitate-glandular.

Calyculi

bractlets 7–9+.

Heads

(1–)3–12+ in corymbiform arrays.

Cypselae

columnar, 2.5–3 mm;

pappi of 50–60+, white bristles in ± 2 series, ca. 5 mm.

Hieracium parryi

Phenology Flowering Jun–Jul.
Habitat Openings in brush, grassy slopes, serpentines
Elevation 10–2000 m (0–6600 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; OR
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Source FNA vol. 19, p. 290.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Cichorieae > Hieracium
Sibling taxa
H. abscissum, H. albiflorum, H. alpinum, H. argutum, H. aurantiacum, H. bolanderi, H. brevipilum, H. caespitosum, H. carneum, H. crepidispermum, H. fendleri, H. flagellare, H. greenei, H. gronovii, H. horridum, H. lactucella, H. longiberbe, H. longipilum, H. megacephalon, H. murorum, H. nudicaule, H. paniculatum, H. pilosella, H. piloselloides, H. pringlei, H. robinsonii, H. sabaudum, H. scabrum, H. schultzii, H. scouleri, H. traillii, H. triste, H. umbellatum, H. venosum, H. vulgatum
Name authority Zahn: in H. G. A. Engler, Pflanzenr. 79[IV,280]: 1128. (1922)
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