Lessingia tenuis
Lessingia leptoclada
spring lessingia
Sierra lessingia
erect, green to tan, glabrous or villous.
erect, tan, glabrous or villous to tomentose.
basal withering by flowering;
cauline margins entire or dentate to pinnately lobed, faces sometimes gland-dotted, abaxial villous to tomentose.
basal withering by flowering;
cauline margins entire, faces gland-dotted (in pits, sometimes obscured by tomentum), abaxial glabrous or villous to tomentose.
obconic, 4–7 mm.
obconic, 5–10 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.
6–25;
corollas lavender (color more intense in tubes);
style-branch appendages truncate-penicillate or lanceolate, 0.3–0.6 mm.
purple-tipped, faces glabrous or villous, gland-dotted;
inner scarious.
green or purple-tipped, faces persistently tomentose, gland-dotted or not;
inner scarious.
borne singly, at ends of branchlets.
borne singly or in corymbiform arrays, usually at ends of branchlets.
tan, equal to or longer than cypselae.
tan, longer than cypselae.
= 10.
= 10.
Lessingia tenuis
Lessingia leptoclada
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.)
Lessingia leptoclada grows in the Sierra Nevada.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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