Flora of North America species comparison

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Hollisteria lanata

false spikeflower, false spineflower
Habit Plants 0.3–0.8(–1) × (0.5–)0.8–3(–5) dm.
Leaves

basal blades (1.5–)2–5(–6) × (0.2–)0.3–0.7(–0.9) cm;

cauline blades (0.5–)1–3.5 × (0.1–)0.3–0.8(–1) cm.
Inflorescences

bracts dimorphic, lateral 2 obvious, 2–5 mm, thinly pubescent, central 1 obscured, 1–2(–3) mm, densely tomentose.
Flowers

perianth 1.5–2 mm.
Achenes

1.7–2 mm.
Involucral

bracts 2 mm, densely tomentose.
2n

= 42.

Hollisteria lanata
Phenology Flowering Mar–Jul.
Habitat Sandy to gravelly or clayey places, mixed grassland, desert scrub, chaparral communities, woodlands
Elevation 10-1000 m (0-3300 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA
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Discussion

Hollisteria lanata is encountered occasionally in the San Joaquin Valley and the adjacent coastal ranges and eastward in the Transverse Ranges to Kern and Tulare counties. Plants are only rarely locally common.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 5, p. 445.
Parent taxa Polygonaceae > subfam. Eriogonoideae > Hollisteria
Synonyms Eriogonum lanatum
Name authority S. Watson: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 14: 296. (1879)
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