Lessingia micradenia
Lessingia nana
little glandular lessingia, Mt. Tamalpais lessingia
dwarf lessingia, little lessingia
erect, tan to brown, glabrous.
decumbent, tan, woolly.
basal withering before flowering;
cauline margins entire, faces usually eglandular, sometimes sparsely stipitate-glandular, abaxial glabrous or villous.
basal withering by flowering;
cauline margins entire, faces gland-dotted (in pits), abaxial woolly.
cylindric to narrowly obconic, 4–6 mm.
obconic, 7–10 mm.
3–10;
corollas white to pale lavender (color more intense in tubes);
style-branch appendages truncate-penicillate, 0.1–0.3 mm.
10–20;
corollas white or pale lavender (color more intense in tubes);
style-branch appendages truncate-penicillate, 0.2–0.4 mm.
purple-tipped, faces glabrous, stipitate-glandular or gland-dotted;
inner scarious.
green, faces woolly, gland-dotted;
inner cartilaginous (stiff, white).
borne ± singly, at ends of branchlets.
borne singly or in corymbiform arrays, in axils of leaves or at ends of branchlets.
tan, equal to or shorter than cypselae.
pink to red, longer than cypselae.
= 10.
Lessingia micradenia
Lessingia nana
Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Lessingia nana is known from the northern Great Central Valley, adjacent foothills of the Sierra Nevada, and foothills of the Cascade Range.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
1. Phyllaries stipitate-glandular | var. micradenia |
1. Phyllaries not stipitate-glandular (sessile-glandular) | var. glabrata |
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