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Lastarriaea coriacea

leather-spineflower
Habit Plants 0.2–1.5 × 0.5–3(–5) dm.
Leaf

blades 0.5–3 cm × 0.2–0.8(–1) mm.
Inflorescences

yellowish green to green or red;

bracts erect or nearly so, narrowly lanceolate, 0.4–1.5(–2) cm × 0.8–1.5(–2) mm;

awns uncinate, (0.5–)1–2(–2.5) mm.
Flowers

perianth 2–3.5 mm (including awns);

tepals connate ca. 2/3 their length, narrowly lanceolate;

filaments 0.5–1 mm;

anthers 0.2–0.3 mm.
Achenes

2.5–3 mm.
Involucral

bracts erect, linear, 0.3–1(–1.2) cm × 0.3–1 mm;

awns uncinate, 0.5–2 mm.
2n

= 42, 60.

Lastarriaea coriacea
Phenology Flowering Feb–Jun.
Habitat Sandy to gravelly soils in coastal and inland grassland, coastal scrub and chaparral communities, pine-oak woodlands
Elevation 0-800 m (0-2600 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; Mexico (Baja California)
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Discussion

Lastarriaea coriacea grows along the coast from Sonoma County to San Diego County, and in the foothills and mountains from Calaveras County to western Riverside County.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 5, p. 477.
Parent taxa Polygonaceae > subfam. Eriogonoideae > Lastarriaea
Synonyms Chorizanthe coriacea, L. chilensis subsp. californica, Chorizanthe lastarriaea var. californica
Name authority (Goodman) Hoover: Leafl. W. Bot. 10: 342. (1966)
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