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burrow goldenweed, burroweed, shrine jimmyweed

Carquinez goldenbush, Contra Costa jimmyweed, Suisun goldenbush

Herbage

minutely hispidulous to hirtellous or sparsely puberulous (at least distal stems), not resinous.

glabrous or minutely hispidulous, stipitate-glandular.

Leaf

blades oblong-oblanceolate, 20–35 mm, margins pinnatifid (lobes spreading at right angles, linear to filiform).

blades oblong-obovate, 10–25 mm, margins serrate to lobed (teeth or lobes in 3–5 even pairs, spinulose-aristate).

Involucres

4–6.5 × 2–2.8 mm.

5–7 × 4–5 mm.

Florets

8–12(–15);

corollas 4.5–6 mm.

10–13;

corollas 4–5 mm.

Phyllary

apices with small, sharply delimited, green resinous area, not aristate, often distinctly thickened and approaching resin pockets, usually gland-dotted.

apices greenish, spinulose-aristate, densely and promently gland-dotted, glands often coalesced as small resin pockets.

Cypsela

ribs not forming hornlike extensions.

ribs not forming apical horns.

Isocoma tenuisecta

Isocoma arguta

Phenology Flowering Sep–Nov. Flowering Aug–Oct.
Habitat Sandy or gravelly flats and hills, grasslands, usually matorral or Larrea stands Low hills, alkaline and subsaline plains, alkali marshes, stream benches, grasslands, fencelines
Elevation 700–1600 m (2300–5200 ft) 0–20(–50) m (0–100(–200) ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; NM; Mexico (Sonora)
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from FNA
CA
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Discussion

Some plants approach Isocoma acradenia var. acradenia in leaf and phyllary morphology in southern Arizona, where the ranges of the two taxa overlap.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Of conservation concern.

Isocoma arguta is known only from Contra Costa and Solano counties.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 20, p. 445. FNA vol. 20, p. 442.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Isocoma Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Isocoma
Sibling taxa
I. acradenia, I. arguta, I. azteca, I. coronopifolia, I. drummondii, I. humilis, I. menziesii, I. pluriflora, I. rusbyi
I. acradenia, I. azteca, I. coronopifolia, I. drummondii, I. humilis, I. menziesii, I. pluriflora, I. rusbyi, I. tenuisecta
Synonyms Haplopappus tenuisectus Haplopappus venetus var. argutus
Name authority Greene: Leafl. Bot. Observ. Crit. 1: 169. (1906) Greene: Man. Bot. San Francisco, 175. (1894)
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