Lasthenia maritima |
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hairy goldfields, maritime goldfields, maritime or seaside goldfields, seaside goldfields |
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Habit | Annuals, to 25 cm (herbage not sweetly scented). |
Stems | usually prostrate or decumbent, rarely erect, branched proximally, glabrous or hairy at nodes and distally. |
Leaves | linear to oblanceolate, 10–90 × 2–12 mm, (fleshy) margins entire or lobed, faces glabrous. |
Involucres | hemispheric, 4–7 mm. |
Receptacles | conic, muricate, glabrous. |
Ray florets | 7–12; (corollas light to golden yellow) laminae oblong, 1–3 mm. |
Phyllaries | 6–14, lanceolate to ovate, hairy (especially at margins and midribs). |
Cypselae | gray, linear to narrowly clavate, (2–)2.5–3 mm, ± hairy; pappi usually of 4–6(–12) brown, lanceolate or subulate, aristate scales plus 4–5+ shorter, laciniate scales, rarely 0. |
Anther | appendages ± oblong, obtuse (style apices ± deltate, glabrous or with apical tufts of hairs and subapical fringes of shorter hairs). |
2n | = 8. |
Lasthenia maritima |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Jul. |
Habitat | Seabird roosting sites, coastal headlands, offshore rocks, islands |
Elevation | 0–100 m (0–300 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; OR; WA; BC
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Discussion | Lasthenia maritima is a self-pollinating, “guano endemic” of seabird nesting grounds. It is typically found on offshore islands and rocks from the Farallon Islands, California, to the northern tip of Vancouver Island, British Columbia and rarely occurs on the mainland. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 21, p. 347. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Baeriinae > Lasthenia > sect. Ptilomeris |
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Synonyms | Burrielia maritima, Baeria maritima, Baeria minor subsp. maritima, L. minor subsp. maritima |
Name authority | (A. Gray) M. C. Vasey: Madroño 32: 139. (1985) |
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