Flora of North America species comparison

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Lessingia ramulosa

Sonoma lessingia
Habit Plants 20–50 cm.
Stems

erect, tan, stipitate-glandular.
Leaves

basal usually persistent at flowering;

cauline margins entire, faces stipitate-glandular, abaxial glabrous or glabrate.
Involucres

hemispheric to campanulate, 5–7 mm.
Disc florets

5–15;

corollas lavender (color more intense in tubes);

style-branch appendages truncate-penicillate, 0.1–0.3 mm.
Phyllaries

purple-tipped, glabrous, stipitate-glandular;

inner scarious.
Heads

borne singly, at ends of branchlets.
Pappi

tan, longer than cypselae.
2n

= 10.

Lessingia ramulosa
Phenology Flowering Jul–Oct.
Habitat Open hills, roadsides, chaparral, woodlands, forests, often on serpentinite soils
Elevation 100–1000 m (300–3300 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA
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Discussion

Lessingia ramulosa is known from the northern San Francisco Bay area and North Coast ranges.

(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. nemaclada, L. pectinata, L. tenuis, L. virgata
Synonyms L. ramulosa var. adenophora
Name authority A. Gray: in G. Bentham, Pl. Hartw., 314. (1849)
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