Flora of North America species comparison

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Lessingia tenuis

spring lessingia
Habit Plants 2–15 cm.
Stems

erect, green to tan, glabrous or villous.
Leaves

basal withering by flowering;

cauline margins entire or dentate to pinnately lobed, faces sometimes gland-dotted, abaxial villous to tomentose.
Involucres

obconic, 4–7 mm.
Disc florets

10–25;

corollas yellow (occasionally pink or suffused with purple in peripheral florets; tubes with brown-purple band inside);

style-branch appendages truncate-penicillate, 0.1–0.2 mm.
Phyllaries

purple-tipped, faces glabrous or villous, gland-dotted;

inner scarious.
Heads

borne singly, at ends of branchlets.
Pappi

tan, equal to or longer than cypselae.
2n

= 10.

Lessingia tenuis
Phenology Flowering Apr–Jul.
Habitat Openings, chaparral, woodlands
Elevation 300–2200 m (1000–7200 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA
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Discussion

Lessingia tenuis is known from the central and southern San Francisco Bay area through the South Coast Range to Ventura County.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 20, p. 455.
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. ramulosa, L. virgata
Synonyms L. ramulosa var. tenuis, L. germanorum var. parvula, L. germanorum var. tenuis
Name authority (A. Gray) Coville: Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 4: 124. (1893)
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