Isocoma menziesii
Isocoma coronopifolia
coastal goldenbush, Menzies' goldenbush, Pacific jimmyweed, white flower goldenbush
common goldenbush, common jimmyweed
glabrous or villlous, sometimes stipitate-glandular, not resinous.
usually glabrous, leaves never stipitate-glandular, almost always resinous.
blades obovate to spatulate or oblanceolate to nearly linear, 5–40 mm, margins entire or toothed to lobed.
blades oblanceolate, 15–30(–50) mm, margins usually pinnatifid (lobes in 1–3 pairs, spreading, linear, apically spinescent), sometimes entire or only proximal leaves pinnatifid.
(6–)7–9 × 6–8 mm.
5–6(–7) × 2.5–4 mm.
(15–)18–25(–28);
corollas 5–7 mm.
12–15;
corollas 4.5–6 mm.
not forming apical horns.
not forming hornlike extensions.
apices green to yellowish, not aristate, sometimes with weakly developed, non- or weakly spinulose projection, gland-dotted, without resin pockets or pockets small, weakly developed (var. decumbens and var. menziesii).
apices green to greenish yellow or yellowish (markedly thickened), not aristate, slightly or not gland-dotted, without resin pockets.
= 12.
Isocoma menziesii
Isocoma coronopifolia
Varieties 5 (5 in the flora).
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Populations with at least the distal leaves entire have been called Isocoma pedicellata, and these apparently segregate geographically, at least to some extent (G. L. Nesom 1991c). Some plants have both entire and pinnatifid leaves; the distinction does not appear to warrant formal recognition.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
1. Leaf blades mostly obovate, thick-fleshy, margins coarsely serrate; stems decumbent, prostrate, or pendent; herbage glabrous | var. sedoides |
1. Leaf blades obovate to oblanceolate, usually not thick-fleshy, margins entire or toothed (if so then at least stems densely villous); stems erect to ascending or decumbent; herbage glabrous, villous, tomentose, or stipitate-glandular | → 2 |
2. Herbage essentially glabrous, stipitate-glandular | → 3 |
2. Herbage glabrous, villous, or tomentose, not prominently glandular or glands beneath other vestiture | → 4 |
3. Stems prostrate to decumbent or ± erect; leaves 5–22 × 2–4 mm; heads in corymbiform to loose, paniculiform arrays; cypselae 2.3–3.6 mm; San Diego County southward | var. decumbens |
3. Stems strictly erect; leaves 20–40 × 4–10 mm; heads in corymbiform arrays; cypselae (3.8–)4.5–5 mm; San Benito and Santa Clara counties | var. diabolica |
4. Plants densely tomentose or villous | → 5 |
4. Plants glabrous or glabrate | → 6 |
5. Herbage finely and closely grayish-arachnoid-tomentose; leaf blades narrowly oblanceolate, 5–22 × 2–4 mm, margins entire or with 1–2 pairs of teeth distally | var. decumbens |
5. Herbage hirtellous, villoso-pilose, or densely gray-tomentose (hairs flattened, vitreous, long); leaf blades linear to oblanceolate or spatulate-oblong, 10–40 × 2–6(–9) mm, at least proximal leaves with toothed margins | var. vernonioides |
6. Leaf margins entire or with 1–2 pairs of teeth or shallow lobes distally | var. menziesii |
6. At least proximal leaves toothed along most margins | var. vernonioides |
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