Isocoma tenuisecta |
Isocoma drummondii |
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burrow goldenweed, burroweed, shrine jimmyweed |
Drummond's goldenbush, Drummond's jimmyweed |
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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 |
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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 |
AZ; NM; Mexico (Sonora)
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TX; Mexico (Tamaulipas) |
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.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 20, p. 445. | FNA vol. 20, p. 444. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Isocoma | Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Isocoma |
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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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