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burrow goldenweed, burroweed, shrine jimmyweed

Drummond's goldenbush, Drummond's jimmyweed

Herbage

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

glabrous, not resinous.

Leaf

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

blades narrowly oblong to oblanceolate-oblong, 13–50 mm, margins usually entire, sometimes distally toothed (shallow teeth in 1–3 pairs).

Involucres

4–6.5 × 2–2.8 mm.

(5.5–)6.5–8 × 4.5–5.5(–7) mm.

Florets

8–12(–15);

corollas 4.5–6 mm.

(18–)22–34;

corollas 5.8–7.5 mm.

Phyllary

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

apices usually green, not aristate, usually strongly gland-dotted, without resin pockets.

Cypsela

ribs not forming hornlike extensions.

ribs not forming hornlike extensions.

Isocoma tenuisecta

Isocoma drummondii

Phenology Flowering Sep–Nov. Flowering (Mar–)May–Jul.
Habitat Sandy or gravelly flats and hills, grasslands, usually matorral or Larrea stands Coastal habitats, often on beach dunes, sand or less commonly clay, brushy prairies, scrub woods, often with mesquite
Elevation 700–1600 m (2300–5200 ft) 0–20 m (0–100 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; NM; Mexico (Sonora)
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from FNA
TX; Mexico (Tamaulipas)
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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.)

Source FNA vol. 20, p. 445. FNA vol. 20, p. 444.
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. arguta, I. azteca, I. coronopifolia, I. humilis, I. menziesii, I. pluriflora, I. rusbyi, I. tenuisecta
Synonyms Haplopappus tenuisectus Linosyris drummondii, Haplopappus drummondii, I. megalantha
Name authority Greene: Leafl. Bot. Observ. Crit. 1: 169. (1906) (Torrey & A. Gray) Greene: Erythea 2: 111. (1894)
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