Isocoma menziesii
Isocoma menziesii var. diabolica
coastal goldenbush, Menzies' goldenbush, Pacific jimmyweed, white flower goldenbush
Menzies' goldenbush, Satan's goldenbush
glabrous or villlous, sometimes stipitate-glandular, not resinous.
strictly erect;
herbage glabrous, usually stipitate-glandular, densely viscid, sometimes eglandular.
blades obovate to spatulate or oblanceolate to nearly linear, 5–40 mm, margins entire or toothed to lobed.
blades obovate to narrowly oblanceolate or narrowly elliptic-oblanceolate, 20–40 × 4–10 mm, not thick-fleshy, margins of at least the proximal shallowly serrate.
(6–)7–9 × 6–8 mm.
(15–)18–25(–28);
corollas 5–7 mm.
6–7 mm.
in corymbiform arrays.
(3.8–)4.5–5 mm.
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).
ribs not forming apical horns.
Isocoma menziesii
Isocoma menziesii var. diabolica
Varieties 5 (5 in the flora).
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Known only from San Benito and Santa Clara counties, var. diabolica occurs in primarily inland, montane habitats. Var. diabolica differs from var. vernonioides in its resinous, usually densely stipitate-glandular vestiture (villous hairs lacking or sparse along the stems), consistently reduced, somewhat bractlike distal cauline leaves, and longer corollas and cypselae.
(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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