Flora of North America species comparison

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Lessingia ramulosa

Lessingia virgata

Sonoma lessingia

wand lessingia
Habit Plants 20–50 cm. Plants 5–60 cm.
Stems

erect, tan, stipitate-glandular.

erect, tan, villous to woolly.
Leaves

basal usually persistent at flowering;

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

basal withering by flowering;

cauline margins entire, faces gland-dotted (in pits), rarely also stipitate-glandular (glands sometimesobscured by tomentum), abaxial usually woolly, sometimes villous.
Involucres

hemispheric to campanulate, 5–7 mm.

narrowly obconic, 5–7 mm.
Disc florets

5–15;

corollas lavender (color more intense in tubes);

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

3–6;

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

style-branch appendages truncate-penicillate or lanceolate, 0.3–0.9 mm.
Phyllaries

purple-tipped, glabrous, stipitate-glandular;

inner scarious.

green or purple-tipped, faces villous to woolly, gland-dotted or not;

inner scarious.
Heads

borne singly, at ends of branchlets.

borne singly or in corymbiform arrays, usually in axils of leaves.
Pappi

tan, longer than cypselae.

white or tan, longer than cypselae.
2n

= 10.

= 10.

Lessingia ramulosa

Lessingia virgata
Phenology Flowering Jul–Oct. Flowering Jun–Oct.
Habitat Open hills, roadsides, chaparral, woodlands, forests, often on serpentinite soils Dry plains, and grassy openings of woodlands, sometimes volcanic soils
Elevation 100–1000 m (300–3300 ft) 50–500 m (200–1600 ft)
Distribution
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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.)

Lessingia virgata is known from the foothills of the Cascade Range, foothills of the northern and central Sierra Nevada, and the northeastern Great Valley.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 20, p. 456. FNA vol. 20, p. 458.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Lessingia 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
L. arachnoidea, L. germanorum, L. glandulifera, L. hololeuca, L. leptoclada, L. micradenia, L. nana, L. nemaclada, L. pectinata, L. ramulosa, L. tenuis
Synonyms L. ramulosa var. adenophora
Name authority A. Gray: in G. Bentham, Pl. Hartw., 314. (1849) A. Gray: in G. Bentham, Pl. Hartw., 315. (1849)
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