Lessingia tenuis
Lessingia glandulifera
spring lessingia
valley lessingia, valley vinegar weed
erect, green to tan, glabrous or villous.
erect, tan, glabrous or villous to woolly.
basal withering by flowering;
cauline margins entire or dentate to pinnately lobed, faces sometimes gland-dotted, abaxial villous to tomentose.
basal withering before flowering;
cauline margins ± entire, faces sessile-glandular, abaxial glabrous or villous to woolly.
obconic, 4–7 mm.
obconic to cylindric, 4–7 mm.
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.
10–30;
corollas yellow (tubes without brown-purple band inside);
style-branch appendages lanceolate, 0.3–1.3 mm.
purple-tipped, faces glabrous or villous, gland-dotted;
inner scarious.
green, glabrous or villous to tomentose, gland-dotted;
inner scarious.
borne singly, at ends of branchlets.
borne singly at ends of branchlets.
tan, equal to or longer than cypselae.
white to tan, equaling or longer than cypselae.
= 10.
Lessingia tenuis
Lessingia glandulifera
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.)
Varieties 3 (3 in the flora).
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
1. Phyllaries tomentose | var. peirsonii |
1. Phyllaries glabrous or villous | → 2 |
2. Stems and abaxial leaf faces woolly (Warner Springs, San Diego County, California) | var. tomentosa |
2. Stems and abaxial leaf faces glabrous or villous | var. glandulifera |
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