Lasthenia glabrata
Lasthenia glabrata subsp. glabrata
yellow ray goldfields
yellow-Ray goldfields
erect, branched distally, glabrous or slightly hairy.
linear or subulate, 40–150 × 2–3+ mm, margins entire, faces glabrous.
hemispheric, 5–10 mm.
± conic, papillate, glabrous or sparsely hairy.
7–15; (corollas yellow) laminae oblong, 4–14 mm.
10–14, ± lanceolate (distinct tips ± deltate), glabrous but for apices.
gray, clavate or obovoid, 2–3.5 mm, margins not ciliate, faces glabrous, or hairy and papillate (papillae rusty or yellowish, wartlike);
pappi 0.
glabrous, not papillate.
appendages deltate or broadly ovate.
= 14.
Lasthenia glabrata
Lasthenia glabrata subsp. glabrata
Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora).
Historically, aboriginal Californians used fruits and leaves of Lasthenia glabrata for food. The subspecies are allopatric and almost identical except for their cypselae.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
1. Cypselae glabrous, not papillate | subsp. glabrata |
1. Cypselae ± hairy and papillate | subsp. coulteri |
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