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Lessingia leptoclada

Sierra lessingia
Habit Plants 5–90 cm.
Stems

erect, tan, glabrous or villous to tomentose.
Leaves

basal withering by flowering;

cauline margins entire, faces gland-dotted (in pits, sometimes obscured by tomentum), abaxial glabrous or villous to tomentose.
Involucres

obconic, 5–10 mm.
Disc florets

6–25;

corollas lavender (color more intense in tubes);

style-branch appendages truncate-penicillate or lanceolate, 0.3–0.6 mm.
Phyllaries

green or purple-tipped, faces persistently tomentose, gland-dotted or not;

inner scarious.
Heads

borne singly or in corymbiform arrays, usually at ends of branchlets.
Pappi

tan, longer than cypselae.
2n

= 10.

Lessingia leptoclada
Phenology Flowering Jul–Oct.
Habitat Open areas, roadsides, woodlands, conifer forests, sometimes granitic soils
Elevation 200–1800 m (700–5900 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA
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Discussion

Lessingia leptoclada grows in the Sierra Nevada.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 20, p. 457.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Lessingia
Sibling taxa
L. arachnoidea, L. germanorum, L. glandulifera, L. hololeuca, L. micradenia, L. nana, L. nemaclada, L. pectinata, L. ramulosa, L. tenuis, L. virgata
Name authority A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 7: 351. (1868)
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