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Lessingia nemaclada

slenderstem lessingia, thread stem lessingia
Habit Plants 5–60 cm.
Stems

erect, tan to brown, glabrous or villous.
Leaves

basal withering by flowering;

cauline margins entire, faces gland-dotted (in pits) and sometimes stipitate-glandular, abaxial glabrous or villous to tomentose.
Involucres

narrowly obconic, 5–6 mm.
Disc florets

3–10;

corollas usually white, sometimes pale lavender (color more intense in tubes);

style-branch appendages usually lanceolate, sometimes truncate-penicillate, 0.4–1 mm.
Phyllaries

usually purple-tipped, faces glabrous, stipitate-glandular and gland-dotted;

inner scarious.
Heads

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

tan, equaling or longer than cypselae.
2n

= 10, 12.

Lessingia nemaclada
Phenology Flowering Jul–Oct.
Habitat Open fields, roadsides, borders of woodlands, sometimes on serpentinite soils
Elevation 200–1100 m (700–3600 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA
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Discussion

Lessingia nemaclada is widespread in central and northern California (except near the coast) and is morphologically variable.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 20, p. 456.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Lessingia
Sibling taxa
L. arachnoidea, L. germanorum, L. glandulifera, L. hololeuca, L. leptoclada, L. micradenia, L. nana, L. pectinata, L. ramulosa, L. tenuis, L. virgata
Synonyms L. nemaclada var. albiflora, L. nemaclada var. mendocina
Name authority Greene: Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci. 1: 191. (1885)
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