Flora of North America species comparison

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Lessingia nana

dwarf lessingia, little lessingia
Habit Plants 2–5(–25) cm.
Stems

decumbent, tan, woolly.
Leaves

basal withering by flowering;

cauline margins entire, faces gland-dotted (in pits), abaxial woolly.
Involucres

obconic, 7–10 mm.
Disc florets

10–20;

corollas white or pale lavender (color more intense in tubes);

style-branch appendages truncate-penicillate, 0.2–0.4 mm.
Phyllaries

green, faces woolly, gland-dotted;

inner cartilaginous (stiff, white).
Heads

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

pink to red, longer than cypselae.
2n

= 10.

Lessingia nana
Phenology Flowering Jun–Oct.
Habitat Open plains, often clay soils
Elevation 200–900 m (700–3000 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

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.)
Source FNA vol. 20, p. 457.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Lessingia
Sibling taxa
L. arachnoidea, L. germanorum, L. glandulifera, L. hololeuca, L. leptoclada, L. micradenia, L. nemaclada, L. pectinata, L. ramulosa, L. tenuis, L. virgata
Name authority A. Gray: in G. Bentham, Pl. Hartw., 315. (1849)
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