Lasthenia coronaria
crowned goldfields, crowned or royal goldfields, royal goldfields
erect, branched distally, usually glandular-puberulent (often with longer non-glandular hairs as well).
linear, 15–60 × 0.5–5 mm, (not fleshy) margins entire or 1–2-pinnately lobed, faces hairy.
hemispheric to obconic, 4–7 mm.
conic, smooth, muricate, or pitted, hairy.
6–15; (corollas yellow) laminae linear-oblong or oblong, 3–10 mm.
6–14, lanceolate to ovate, hairy.
black, linear to narrowly clavate, to 2.5 mm, hairy;
pappi usually of 5–6+ lanceolate to ovate scales (1–5 uniaristate), sometimes of 4–5 subulate, aristate scales, or 0.
appendages elliptic, acute (style apices ± deltate with apical tufts of hairs and subapical fringes of shorter hairs).
= 8, 10.
Lasthenia coronaria
Pappus, head size, and branching pattern vary in Lasthenia coronaria. Two types of pappi are often found within a head and sometimes in different individuals of a population. The most distinctive feature of this species is its glandular herbage, which produces a characteristic sweet scent not present in any other lasthenia.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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